George Bernard Shaw

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

After a few months’ acquaintance with European coffee, one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.