Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.