George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

Anger is short madness

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious – except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

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

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.