I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.