Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

do not act stupid to impress the dopes Be YOURSELF and impress everyone -

Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.