Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.