George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

George Bernard Shaw

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

George Bernard Shaw

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

George Bernard Shaw

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

Remember that I too am mortal.

George Bernard Shaw

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

George Bernard Shaw

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

George Bernard Shaw

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

George Bernard Shaw

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

George Bernard Shaw

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... 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.

George Bernard Shaw

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

George Bernard Shaw

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

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 his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

George Bernard Shaw

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

George Bernard Shaw

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

George Bernard Shaw

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

George Bernard Shaw

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

George Bernard Shaw

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

George Bernard Shaw

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

George Bernard Shaw

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair

George Bernard Shaw

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

George Bernard Shaw

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

George Bernard Shaw

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

George Bernard Shaw

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw
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