History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.