I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as…

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble...

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble...

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him...

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger...

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger...

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to...

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to...

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of...

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by...

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are...

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are...

A lost friendship is an enemy won.

A lost friendship is an enemy won.