The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.