George Bernard Shaw

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

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.