Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. – George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. – George Bernard Shaw A Treatise on Parents and Children.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. – George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. – George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. – George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. – George Bernard Shaw
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare. – George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. – George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? – George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart, Act 1.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. – George Bernard Shaw
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters. – George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own. – George Bernard Shaw
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. – George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win. – George Bernard Shaw
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw