George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

We are free to yield to truth.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.