George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

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

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Tear thyself from delay.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

If it matters, it will hurt like knives or wrap and lift you in the most immeasurable joy. Or both. One thing is certain, you will feel intensely alive.

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.