George Bernard Shaw

"The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements."

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

"A man cannot be made comfortable unless he is made free."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to his environment; an unreasonable man adapts his environment to himself."

"Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman."

"Go anywhere in England where there are political prisoners and you will find that the locks and bolts are on the outside of the cell doors, and the prisoners are not under lock and key and the chains but under the conviction that they are free."

"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."

"The vilest abuser of women is he who tries to make manhood dependent on them."

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for existing. Satisfaction is death."

"If you cannot achieve your dreams, you can always fall back on loving someone."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"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."

"All great things are wrought by labor."

"The man of imagination is not permitted to despair."

"An honest man is the noblest work of God."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

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

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

"Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press."

"Do not mistake me, I am not attacking the Christian religion—but the wonderful thing is, I should not have to!"

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

"What really matters is that the English people are as distinguished by their stupidity and hypocrisy in the twentieth century as in the tenth."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"Crime and beauty grow in the same soil."

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

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are no longer good actors."

"Kings are not born: they are made by universal suffrage."

"I love my country too well to be a nationalist."