George Bernard Shaw

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

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

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.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.