Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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