George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I want to be all used up when I die.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

Property is organized robbery.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

She stepped out barefoot on to the grass, her soul naked, sun beating to her heart’s rhythm, bathing her skin. In her mind, she had already escaped.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.