George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there’s been a liberating force that’s come from it.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means – one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Well, when it comes to social media – there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down. You can’t be reading all that stuff. I mean, that’s like letting somebody just walk up and slap you, you know? You would never do that. You would never just sit there and go, slap me in the face and I’m good with it. No. So why would you open yourself up to that?

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Breed is stronger than pasture.