To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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