Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.