George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Pity the man who has a character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is silent poor indeed.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Make a good use of the present.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

When you know better you do better.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.