George Bernard Shaw

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

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions…

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]

All promise outruns performance.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to carry it off.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.