George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.