Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.