A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool’s brain digest philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
He who can does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is a very necessary article… It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw
A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
George Bernard Shaw
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
An index is a great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Better never than late.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
George Bernard Shaw
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
George Bernard Shaw
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
