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“I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum”

George Bernard Shaw

“Shall I turn up the light for you?

No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”

George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House

Source: Heartbreak House

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”

George Bernard Shaw

#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”

George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession

Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

George Bernard Shaw

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara

Source: Major Barbara

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”

George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V; see also the later phrasing of Malcolm Fraser, "life wasn't meant to be easy"
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

George Bernard Shaw

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”

George Bernard Shaw

#110
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”

George Bernard Shaw

“… a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra

Source: Caesar and Cleopatra

“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

George Bernard Shaw

Source: Advice to a Young Critic

“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island…”

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”

George Bernard Shaw

Killing For Sport, Preface (1914)
1910s