It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Property is organized robbery.

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.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them