George Bernard Shaw

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

"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."

"Art should refine the manners of men and awaken their higher nature."

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

"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."

"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current power structures."

"The man who has never hoped cannot love."

"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."

"The science of life is a life of science."

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."

"Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national conduct must be based on it."

"The truth is, the real loony here is me for pretending that a human body can do what a human body cannot do."

"When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, then you have education."

"Life will not stand still. Right and wrong have been invaluably intermixed since Adam's days, but there is not and never was a day when they were not there."

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

"England would never be broken. If England was broken, it would decay like other broken things. But when England is broken, it will not decay; it will crumble into dust."

"I never apologize for anything. It is a sign of weakness."

"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one."

"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls."

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

"The law is the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being."

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature."

"There is nothing like the real thing, baby."

"Hell is paved with good intentions."