George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

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

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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.

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.