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Therefore, my taxpayer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.
The Technique of War (1917)
I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
Pygmalion (1912)
An American has no sense of privacy. He doesn't know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
Preface to London music in 1888-89 as heard by Corno di Bassetto (1937)
I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
You're not a man, you're a machine.
Arms and the Man (1898)
Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald's movement is that it is not quite British enough.
Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.
The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are, the more it hurts to touch them.
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
Love Among the Artists (1900)
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
Love Among the Artists (1900)