Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Better never than late.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.