Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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.

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.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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.

Property is organized robbery.

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

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Syllables govern the world.

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