George Bernard Shaw

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

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.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists – talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.