Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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

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

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

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

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