Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.