Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.