George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.