GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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

"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere."

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."

"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are."

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

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

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

"Whisky is liquid sunshine."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

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

"I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals."

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

"If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it."

"To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer."

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

"I do not know what I think until I write it."

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

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

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