George Bernard Shaw

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

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

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

“My reputation grows with every failure.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

“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 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.”

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

“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”

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

“The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!”

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

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

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

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”