George Bernard Shaw

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

Never learn to do anything. If you don’t learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

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

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.