Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.

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

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.