George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That’s right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That’s democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good;be good for something.All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it… Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.