George Bernard Shaw

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

By indignities men come to dignities.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

I believe in things that are developed through hard work. I always like people who have developed long and hard, especially through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think what they arrive at is usually a much deeper and more beautiful thing than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning. I say this because it’s a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.