Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.