George Bernard Shaw

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Not to be provok’d is best: But if mov’d, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Children are all foreigners.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.