Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

Those who can do, those who can't teach.