George Bernard Shaw

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

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 receipt.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.