If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.