George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Every wall is a door.

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

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

I teach that all men are mad.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

With all the doubt, with every worry, with all the negativity that I mistook for honesty, it kept me blinded. Lying for so long, I fooled myself in believing it to be my reality. And living in that world, it was my reality. Like when the lights come on, or when the curtains are drawn back, the shock of the clarity, meant I had to adjust to the new world I was witnessing. An honest; good with the bad, world, that I can thrive and grow in.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.