Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.