George Bernard Shaw

Syllables govern the world.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I work as my father drank.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.