George Bernard Shaw

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

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

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa….Leonardo had eye trouble….Art couldn’t explain it….But now we’re safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf…

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

The future is purchased by the present.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

All mankind love a lover.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.