George Bernard Shaw

I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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 worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God— nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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.

You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.

I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.