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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly...
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid...
Fame is like a river, that beareth things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and...
I wish all Americans were as blind as you.
Source: Speaking to Helen Keller....
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Source: Man and...
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a...
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as...
I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE. The trouble with you, Shaw, is that you look as if there were famine in the land.
G.B.S. The...
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their...
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from...
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic...
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save...
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his...