George Bernard Shaw

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.