Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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.

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.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

I never expect a soldier to think.