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George Bernard Shaw: I believe in...

George Bernard Shaw: I believe in...

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of...

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George Bernard Shaw: I tell you...

George Bernard Shaw: I tell you...

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring...

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George Bernard Shaw: Fame is like...

George Bernard Shaw: Fame is like...

Fame is like a river, that beareth things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and...

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George Bernard Shaw: Life is no...

George Bernard Shaw: Life is no...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to...

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Oscar Wilde: It is better...

Oscar Wilde: It is better...

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Oscar Wilde: For he who...

Oscar Wilde: For he who...

For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.

Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of...

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Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's...

Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his...

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Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount...

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Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature,...

Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature,...

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Oscar Wilde: It is because...

Oscar Wilde: It is because...

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its...

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Oscar Wilde: I should be...

Oscar Wilde: I should be...

I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.

Source: Explaining why he...

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Oscar Wilde: The man who...

Oscar Wilde: The man who...

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk...

Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk...

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel...

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Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Source: In The...

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Oscar Wilde: It is through...

Oscar Wilde: It is through...

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we realize our perfection.

Source: In...

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William Shakespeare: Thou art an...

William Shakespeare: Thou art an...

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
Makes me with thy strength...

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William Shakespeare: And now what...

William Shakespeare: And now what...

And now what rests but that we spend the time
With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
Such as befits the...

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George Bernard Shaw: No sooner had...

George Bernard Shaw: No sooner had...

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on it legs again in the name of...

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George Bernard Shaw: Orchestras only need...

George Bernard Shaw: Orchestras only need...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity,...

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