Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.