From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire....
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven,...
She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...
O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?
It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Berna...