George Bernard Shaw

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.