George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Animals are my friends . . . and I don't eat my friends.

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

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.

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