Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Fear is choosing the safe course

This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

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

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

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Never repeat old grievances.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.