Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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

Property is organized robbery.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.