George Bernard Shaw

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Every wall is a door.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Learn to say “I don’t know.” If used when appropriate, it will be often.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.