Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.,

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

Hell is paved with good intention, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse