Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

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