Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

La libertad supone responsabilidad. Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore.

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

why is it that the people who know how to enjoy themselves never have any money and the people who have money never know how to enjoy themselves?

Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the spending of four years on dramatic criticism. I have sworn an oath to endure no more of it. Never again will I cross the threshold of a theatre. The subject is exhausted; and so am I. I am off duty forever, and am going to sleep.

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

I know how many lives any move of mine will cost; and if the move is worth the cost I make it and pay the cost. But Joan never counts the cost at all:

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed.

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him – the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

An epoch is but a swing of the pendullum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

A genius is a person who, seeing farther and probing deeper than other people, has a different set of ethical valuations from theirs, and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her specific talents.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.