George Bernard Shaw

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

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

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

The disciplined are free.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he’s the hell of a diplomat.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.