George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.