All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.