Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.