George Bernard Shaw

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.