I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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.