George Bernard Shaw

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

An honest man is always a child.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable – any real insight or broad human sentiment.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.