George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought – with these I deal.

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.

Wherever there is power there is age.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.