George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

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

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.