Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got. Everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.