George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

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

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

Never do wrong when people are looking.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.