George Bernard Shaw

The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.