George Bernard Shaw Quotes

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Fashions are induced epidemics.

A great social reformer.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.