George Bernard Shaw

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Love is only one of many passions.

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life — some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed — because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

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

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to carry it off.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.