George Bernard Shaw Quotes And Sayings

Liberty Means Responsibility. That Is Why Most Men Dread It.

Just Do What Must Be Done. This May Not Be Happiness, But It Is Greatness.

If You Cannot Get Rid Of The Family Skeleton, You May As Well Make It Dance.

We Are Made Wise Not By The Recollection Of Our Past, But By The Responsibility For Our Future.

Assassination Is The Extreme Form Of Censorship.

If All The Economists Were Laid End To End, They'd Never Reach A Conclusion.

The Only Way To Avoid Being Miserable Is Not To Have Enough Leisure To Wonder Whether You Are Happy Or Not.

We Have No More Right To Consume Happiness Without Producing It Than To Consume Wealth Without Producing It.

The Power Of Accurate Observation Is Commonly Called Cynicism By Those Who Have Not Got It.

Why Should We Take Advice On Sex From The Pope? If He Knows Anything About It, He Shouldn't!

Marriage Is An Alliance Entered Into By A Man Who Can't Sleep With The Window Shut, And A Woman Who Can't Sleep With The Window Open.

An Asylum For The Sane Would Be Empty In America.

The Great Advantage Of A Hotel Is That It Is A Refuge From Home Life.

He Who Can, Does. He Who Cannot, Teaches.

Life Would Be Tolerable But For Its Amusements.

There Is No Sincerer Love Than The Love Of Food.

Censorship Ends In Logical Completeness When Nobody Is Allowed To Read Any Books Except The Books That Nobody Reads.

The Possibilities Are Numerous Once We Decide To Act And Not React.

The Only Service A Friend Can Really Render Is To Keep Up Your Courage By Holding Up To You A Mirror In Which You Can See A Noble Image Of Yourself.

Independence? That's Middle Class Blasphemy. We Are All Dependent On One Another, Every Soul Of Us On Earth.

Lack Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil.

I Enjoy Convalescence. It Is The Part That Makes The Illness Worth While.

A Fool's Brain Digests Philosophy Into Folly, Science Into Superstition, And Art Into Pedantry. Hence University Education.

I Never Thought Much Of The Courage Of A Lion Tamer. Inside The Cage He Is At Least Safe From People.

It Is The Mark Of A Truly Intelligent Person To Be Moved By Statistics.

She Had Lost The Art Of Conversation But Not, Unfortunately, The Power Of Speech.

A Happy Family Is But An Earlier Heaven.

Every Person Who Has Mastered A Profession Is A Skeptic Concerning It.

Democracy Is A Device That Insures We Shall Be Governed No Better Than We Deserve.

Reading Made Don Quixote A Gentleman, But Believing What He Read Made Him Mad.

The Golden Rule Is That There Are No Golden Rules.

The People Who Get On In This World Are The People Who Get Up And Look For The Circumstances They Want And If They Can't Find Them, Make Them.

Beware Of False Knowledge; It Is More Dangerous Than Ignorance.

A Broken Heart Is A Very Pleasant Complaint For A Man In London If He Has A Comfortable Income.

You Cannot Be A Hero Without Being A Coward.

An Index Is A Great Leveller.

The Single Biggest Problem In Communication Is The Illusion That It Has Taken Place.

You See Things; And You Say 'Why?' But I Dream Things That Never Were; And I Say 'Why Not?'

Syllables Govern The World.

You Can Always Tell An Old Soldier By The Inside Of His Holsters And Cartridge Boxes. The Young Ones Carry Pistols And Cartridges; The Old Ones, Grub.

You Use A Glass Mirror To See Your Face; You Use Works Of Art To See Your Soul.

If Women Were Particular About Men's Characters, They Would Never Get Married At All.

I Often Quote Myself. It Adds Spice To My Conversation.

A Statesman Who Confines Himself To Popular Legislation - Or, For The Matter Of That, A Playwright Who Confines Himself To Popular Plays - Is Like A Blind Man's Dog Who Goes Wherever The Blind Man Pulls Him, On The Ground That Both Of Them Want To Go To The Same Place.

England And America Are Two Countries Separated By The Same Language.

Everything Happens To Everybody Sooner Or Later If There Is Time Enough.

Perhaps The Greatest Social Service That Can Be Rendered By Anybody To The Country And To Mankind Is To Bring Up A Family.

Without Art, The Crudeness Of Reality Would Make The World Unbearable.

Better Keep Yourself Clean And Bright; You Are The Window Through Which You Must See The World.

Only On Paper Has Humanity Yet Achieved Glory, Beauty, Truth, Knowledge, Virtue, And Abiding Love.