A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.