George Bernard Shaw

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

The money men make lives after them.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.