George Bernard Shaw

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.