George Bernard Shaw Quotes (675 Quotes)

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir, a decorative litt.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

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

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply as by eating macaroni instead of mutton chops.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games i

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I cant talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Life is not meant to be easy, my son, but take courage it can be delightful.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one and that one is his cowardice.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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.

Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.

The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister and that is her mother.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I am sick of reasonable people they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.