Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

• I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
• I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
• If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
• If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
• If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
• In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
• It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
• It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
• It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
• It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
• Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
• Lack of money is the root of all evil.
• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
• Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
• Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
• Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
• Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
• 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.
• Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
• Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
• Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
• Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
• Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
• My reputation grows with every failure.
• Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
• Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
• Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
• Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
• Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.