I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.