George Bernard Shaw

Property is organized robbery.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

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

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.