George Bernard Shaw

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Those who trust us educate us.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man’s intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man’s self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.