Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.