Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

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

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things.

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.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.