George Bernard Shaw

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.