Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

The business man - a man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.