Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.