Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

An index is a great leveller.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Property is organized robbery.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.