George Bernard Shaw

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he’s chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change Bodies, they take their turns in Pain as well as in Pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse Conditions.What one enjoys, the other cannot Want. Like the Primitive Christians, they have all things in common, and no Property but in one another.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.