Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

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.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.