George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have had to take to prove myself right have been quite unnecessary.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.

The most important thing about a man is not what he knows, but how he knows it.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him it costs him his life.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.