Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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

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.

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.

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