Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.