George Bernard Shaw

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

The years teach much what the days never knew.

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.