George Bernard Shaw

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct – nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

To delay justice, is injustice.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.