George Bernard Shaw

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."

"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win."

"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."

"Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad."

"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change."