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"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
"It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion."
"If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative littérateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power."
"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."
"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary…. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."
"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
"General consultant to mankind."
"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."
"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned."
"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 absolutely forbid any such outrage."
"If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary."
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."