George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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

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 hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

First and foremost, it’s going to be treat others with respect. Be polite: Manners go a long way. Try to come from a good place. And aside from that, stay focused and do the right thing.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.