George Bernard Shaw Quotes And Sayings

The Liar's Punishment Is Not In The Least That He Is Not Believed, But That He Cannot Believe Anyone Else.

The Heretic Is Always Better Dead. And Mortal Eyes Cannot Distinguish The Saint From The Heretic.

The Test Of A Man Or Woman's Breeding Is How They Behave In A Quarrel.

Life Does Not Cease To Be Funny When People Die Any More Than It Ceases To Be Serious When People Laugh.

The Nazi Movement Is In Many Respects One Which Has My Warmest Sympathy.

I Have A Strong Feeling That I Shall Be Glad When I Am Dead And Done For - Scrapped At Last To Make Room For Somebody Better, Cleverer, More Perfect Than Myself.

In Socialism, Private Property Is Anathema, And Equal Distribution Of Income The First Consideration. In Capitalism, Private Property Is Cardinal, And Distribution Left To Ensue From The Play Of Free Contract And Selfish Interest On That Basis, No Matter What Anomalies It May Present.

You Have Learnt Something. That Always Feels At First As If You Had Lost Something.

Except During The Nine Months Before He Draws His First Breath, No Man Manages His Affairs As Well As A Tree Does.

The Man Who Writes About Himself And His Own Time Is The Only Man Who Writes About All People And About All Time.

Progress Is Impossible Without Change, And Those Who Cannot Change Their Minds Cannot Change Anything.

All Great Truths Begin As Blasphemies.

When A Man Says Money Can Do Anything, That Settles It: He Hasn't Got Any.

Beauty Is A Short-lived Tyranny.

Nothing Is Worth Doing Unless The Consequences May Be Serious.

We Must Always Think About Things, And We Must Think About Things As They Are, Not As They Are Said To Be.

There Is Only One Religion, Though There Are A Hundred Versions Of It.

Baseball Has The Great Advantage Over Cricket Of Being Sooner Ended.

Political Necessities Sometime Turn Out To Be Political Mistakes.

Socialism Is The Same As Communism, Only Better English.

We Learn From Experience That Men Never Learn Anything From Experience.

Caesar Was A Man Of Great Common Sense And Good Taste, Meaning Thereby A Man Without Originality Or Moral Courage.

No Question Is So Difficult To Answer As That To Which The Answer Is Obvious.

Life Levels All Men. Death Reveals The Eminent.

Cruelty Would Be Delicious If One Could Only Find Some Sort Of Cruelty That Didn't Really Hurt.

The British Soldier Can Stand Up To Anything Except The British War Office.

People Become Attached To Their Burdens Sometimes More Than The Burdens Are Attached To Them.

Americans Adore Me And Will Go On Adoring Me Until I Say Something Nice About Them.

If There Was Nothing Wrong In The World There Wouldn't Be Anything For Us To Do.

I Would Like To Take You Seriously, But To Do So Would Be An Affront To Your Intelligence.

Marriage Is Good Enough For The Lower Classes: They Have Facilities For Desertion That Are Denied To Us.

Those Who Do Not Know How To Live Must Make A Merit Of Dying.

We Are The Only Real Aristocracy In The World: The Aristocracy Of Money.

Success Does Not Consist In Never Making Mistakes But In Never Making The Same One A Second Time.

Martyrdom: The Only Way A Man Can Become Famous Without Ability.

It Is Most Unwise For People In Love To Marry.

If You Injure Your Neighbour, Better Not Do It By Halves.

Men Have To Do Some Awfully Mean Things To Keep Up Their Respectability.

A Man Who Has No Office To Go, To I Don't Care Who He Is, Is A Trial Of Which You Can Have No Conception.

If I Were A Woman, I'd Simply Refuse To Speak To Any Man Or Do Anything For Men Until I'd Got The Vote.

I Want To Destroy Ownership In Order That Possession And Enjoyment May Be Raised To The Highest Point In Every Section Of The Community.

The Only Fundamental And Possible Socialism Is The Socialisation Of The Selective Breeding Of Man.

What Is The Use Of Writing Plays, What Is The Use Of Writing Anything, If There Is Not A Will Which Finally Moulds Chaos Itself Into A Race Of Gods.

The First Condition Of Progress Is The Removal Of Censorship.

My Method Of Getting A Play Across The Footlights Is Like A Revolver Shooting: Every Line Has A Bullet In It And Comes With An Explosion.

Socialism, Reduced To Its Simplest Legal And Practical Expression, Means The Complete Discarding Of The Institution Of Private Property By Transforming It Into Public Property, And The Division Of The Resultant Public Income Equally And Indiscriminately Among The Entire Population.

If A Woman Can, By Careful Selection Of A Father And Nourishment Of Herself, Produce A Citizen With Efficient Senses, Sound Organs And A Good Digestion, She Should Clearly Be Secured A Sufficient Reward For That Natural Service To Make Her Willing To Undertake And Repeat It.

The Idea Of Personal Salvation Is Intensely Repugnant To Me When It Is Not Absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, The Big Brute, Preserving His Personality In A Future State And Swaggering About As A Celestial Rough Rider!

Statistics Show That Of Those Who Contract The Habit Of Eating, Very Few Survive.

If History Repeats Itself, And The Unexpected Always Happens, How Incapable Must Man Be Of Learning From Experience.