He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

Let my country die for me.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.