Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

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

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

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.