Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

General consultant to mankind.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Property is organized robbery.

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