George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Standing beneath this immense, bejeweled, star-spangled dome, breathing in its life, boundaries fall away, possibilities open up and my wings unfold. And I thought that you were the one who was the angel.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.