George Bernard Shaw

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

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

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.