George Bernard Shaw

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper.

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness , we don’t really know what love is.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.