George Bernard Shaw

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts – a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.