George Bernard Shaw

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.