George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

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

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.