Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

El hombre es civilizado en la medida que comprende a un gato.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly. NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...

Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I don't consider human volcanoes respectable. And I'm so tired of the subject. Our house is always full of women in love with my husband and men in love with me. We encourage it because it's pleasant to have company.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.