Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.