Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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

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.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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

Better never than late.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

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.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.