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

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.