The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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

Bad manners make a journalist.