George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.