George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one – to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.