The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.