George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.