Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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