George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Standing beneath this immense, bejeweled, star-spangled dome, breathing in its life, boundaries fall away, possibilities open up and my wings unfold. And I thought that you were the one who was the angel.

It is better to walk alone, then with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Blame is safer than praise.

A great man is always willing to be little.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

Language is the dress of thought.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.