Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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.

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.