Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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