George Bernard Shaw

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

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

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

My reputation grows with every failure.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That’s right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That’s democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please – even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

It always seems impossible until its done.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.