Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Better never than late.

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

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.