George Bernard Shaw

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

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words – 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.