George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 8)

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”

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

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

“The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!”

“There is always danger for those who are afraid.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”

“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.”

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation”

“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination”