When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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.