George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they’re about to do and thinks it still matters.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…on the path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he does not.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.