George Bernard Shaw

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

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.