George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character.

Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.