George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

For knowledge itself is power.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The less government we have the better.