A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.