Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.