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Sir, that all...

Sir, that all...

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but...

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They are forced...

They are forced...

They are forced plants, raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after...

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There is nothing,...

There is nothing,...

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the...

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Wickedness is always...

Wickedness is always...

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes a short cut to everything.

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What provokes your...

What provokes your...

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the...

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It is better...

It is better...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to...

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It is easy...

It is easy...

It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it...

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Why do progress...

Why do progress...

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Source: Hour of Glory, Hour of...

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W C Fields: I didn't squawk...

W C Fields: I didn't squawk...

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside...

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Samuel Goldwyn: Mr. Goldwyn's secretary...

Samuel Goldwyn: Mr. Goldwyn's secretary...

Mr. Goldwyn's secretary was cleaning out his file cabinets on day. She asked Samuel if she could toss out the files...

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Samuel Goldwyn: In picture-making the...

Samuel Goldwyn: In picture-making the...

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

Source: In...

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Samuel Goldwyn: I don't think...

Samuel Goldwyn: I don't think...

I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.

Source:...

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Fred Allen: The first time...

Fred Allen: The first time...

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

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George Bernard Shaw: In Heaven an...

George Bernard Shaw: In Heaven an...

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Source: Man and Superman, Maxims for...

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George Bernard Shaw: Nobody can say...

George Bernard Shaw: Nobody can say...

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.

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George Bernard Shaw: No man can...

George Bernard Shaw: No man can...

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: Optimistic lies have...

George Bernard Shaw: Optimistic lies have...

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his...

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George Bernard Shaw: The notion that...

George Bernard Shaw: The notion that...

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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George Bernard Shaw: Never waste jealousy...

George Bernard Shaw: Never waste jealousy...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long...

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George Bernard Shaw: The true artist...

George Bernard Shaw: The true artist...

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy,...

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