George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

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.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.