George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“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.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“He who has never hoped can never despair.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Morality is not respectability.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous – the ice of life is slippery.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I’ve posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin’s Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I don’t know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“My way of joking is to tell the truth.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I love little children too but I don’t cut off their heads and stick them in vases.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Heartbreak is life educating us.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“War does not decide who is right but who is left.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“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.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A family is a tyranny ruled over by it’s weakest member.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Morals are a luxury of the rich.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The sound body is the product of the sound mind.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“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.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The 100% American is 99% idiot.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I never expect a soldier to think.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Better never than late.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The person I miss most is the one I could have been.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Most people do not pray; they only beg.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“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.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“God is on the side of the big battalions.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don’t let you out till you are dead.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you’d better go and talk to yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Well, sir, you never can tell. That’s a principle in life with me, sir, if you’ll excuse my having such a thing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“To be a champion you must live like one.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Some people look at the world and say ‘why?’ Some people look at the world and say ‘why not?’” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It’s in the nature of governments to tell lies.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Stimulate the phagocytes.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Activity is the only road to knowledge.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Paradoxes are the only truths.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it’s wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t waste time collecting other people’s autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing – to learn to live on earth as human beings.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That’s why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The most sincere form of love is love for food.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Remember that I too am mortal.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“How you ought properly to spell ‘fish’ in English: ‘goti’ .” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“My reputation grows with every failure.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Our first duty is not to be poor.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Life is too short for men to take it seriously.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“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.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All great art and literature is propaganda.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Virtue is insufficient temptation.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth – beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals – would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The harder I work the more I live.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Music is the brandy of the damned.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is wasted on the young.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be all used up when I die.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“English is the easiest language to speak badly.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“From a very early age, I’ve had to interrupt my education to go to school.” ~ George Bernard Shaw