“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.[From the will of GBS]”