Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.