Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Bear it like a man, even if you feel it like an ass.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary, more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.