George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Business is the salt of life.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

We have more than we use.