Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.