George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.