George Bernard Shaw

It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.