George Bernard Shaw

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

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

I believe in things that are developed through hard work. I always like people who have developed long and hard, especially through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think what they arrive at is usually a much deeper and more beautiful thing than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning. I say this because it’s a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to.

Tear thyself from delay.