What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

Imagination is the beginning of creation.