George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I teach that all men are mad.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

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

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.