My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.