George Bernard Shaw

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.