George Bernard Shaw

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

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

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

All promise outruns performance.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.