Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

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

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.