George Bernard Shaw

When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good. Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. ... What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.