George Bernard Shaw

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.