Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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

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.

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

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

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

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.