George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…on the path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

Remember who you are.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

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

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.