God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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.