George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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.

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 secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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