George Bernard Shaw

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I want to be all used up when I die.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

She stepped out barefoot on to the grass, her soul naked, sun beating to her heart’s rhythm, bathing her skin. In her mind, she had already escaped.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.

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.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.

Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.