Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

Better never than late.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.