George Bernard Shaw

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.