Emotions and Feelings

We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew … Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Shaw has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him.

Shaw has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

How else but through a broken heart

And alien tears will fill for him

And alien tears will fill for him

Something was dead in each of us,

I never saw a man who looked

I never saw a man who looked

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

I can resist everything except temptation.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.