Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.