Sleachta George Bernard Shaw ar an saol, grá agus athrú

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.