George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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

My reputation grows with every failure.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not hide from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Rest in reason; move in passion.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.