I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.