George Bernard Shaw

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?

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Property is organized robbery.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Make a good use of the present.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits. Distinguish these without falling into names and classifications.

Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.

Women tell men things that they are not likely to find out for themselves.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

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