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Breakages, Limited, the biggest industrial corporation in the country.
The Apple Cart (1928)
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Oh, you are a very poor soldier — a chocolate cream soldier!
Arms and the Man (1898)
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
Major Barbara (1905)
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
The Devil's Disciple (1901)
He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
Pygmalion (1912)
He who has never hoped can never despair.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1906)
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
Man and Superman (1903)
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The Philanderer (1893)
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1908)
I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
Misalliance (1910)
You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.