George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

See, I think you live on earth a certain number of times until you finish what it is that you were meant to do here. And then you go on. I don’t think I’ll be back here. I think I’m done.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.