George Bernard Shaw

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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

It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Language is the archives of history.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.