George Bernard Shaw

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better been left to the men.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Why do the words I want to say, struggle to come out of my mouth. Why does fear have such a grip over me. I shouldn’t have to battle to say all the complimentary things I so desperately want to share. It shouldn’t be this hard, that I have to force myself; it’s wrong that such loving words, should have to be spoken under such duress. I’m aware of how wrong it is, but withholding is all I have known, even though I desire so badly to share my thoughts and feelings with you, as freely as you do with me.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

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.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.