George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A vow is a snare for sin.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Patience – the gift of being able to see past the emotion.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

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.