George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Genius Borrows nobly.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Riches are for spending.

Remember who you are.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

I heartily accept the motto,That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.