George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

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

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.

There’s much more stupidity than there is malice in the world.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.