If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.