George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Wherever there is power there is age.

I thus free myself from the illness of ego-clinging.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

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

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.