Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.