Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.