George Bernard Shaw

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

The last book I read was the book I’ve been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Classic – A book which people praise and don’t read.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Never judge a book by its movie.