A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.