"The lesson intended by an author is..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”

“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.”

“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”

“If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.”

“I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.”

“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”

“I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.”

“No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.”

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”