George Bernard Shaw

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.