George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.