What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.