George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

This body of mine is my teacher. This heart of mine, my guide. My dear head struggles to make sense of it all whilst my hands gently remind me to trust and let go.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

The quieter you become, you more you are able to hear.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

It’s like something shifted when I spoke to you, I can’t even put words to it. This sense of gentle peace, space, lightness, freedom. The realization that the longing I carried for so long, that pain was not about him all along. It was the yearning to return to that place from which, once upon a time, we all came.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.