George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting.

Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Many a sinner has played himself into heaven on the trombone.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport;

when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer.

Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister;

write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.