George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
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 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.
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.
It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
