"What really flatters a man is that..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”

“Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.”

“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.”

“Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.”

“Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.”

“Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.”

“'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.”

“We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.”

“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”