George Bernard Shaw

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.