Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

I work as my father drank.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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.