George Bernard Shaw Quotes (675 Quotes)

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam

My reputation grows with every failure.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Marry Ann and at the end of a week youll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

We educate one another and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 American as 99 an idiot. And they adore me.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

That older and greater church to which I belong the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice, and affirm good fellowship without mawkishness.

How can what an Englishman believes be heresy It is a contradiction in terms.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretense of reluctance.

The open mind never acts when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift to be in heaven is to steer.

There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.

You're not a man, youre a machine.

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop.

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

The scavenger of misery is pity.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level. .