George Bernard Shaw

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race – the individual’s distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety’s or comfort’s sake, to stand well in his neighbor’s eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.