Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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

The most sincere form of love is love for food

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

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.