George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.