George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

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.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

The sun is but a morning star.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.