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

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

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

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

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.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.