England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There are two tragedies in life- One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore allprogress depends on the unreasonable man.

I have never felt inclined to write, any more than to breathe. It never occured to me that my literary sense was exceptional: I gave everyone credit for it; for there is nothing miraculous in a natural faculty to the man who has it.

On his courtship with Ellen Terry: It was a paper courtship, which is perhaps the pleasantest, as it is the most enduring of all courtships.

I am fond of women (one in a 1000 say), but I am in earnest about quite other things. To most women, one man and one lifetime make a world. I require whole populations and historical epochs to engage my interests seriously and make the writing machine (for that is what GBS is) work at full speed and pressure: love is only diversion and recreation to me.