Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

• Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
• Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
• Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
• Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
• Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
• She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
• Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
• The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
• The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
• The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
• The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
• The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
• The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
• The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
• 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.
• The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
• The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
• The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
• The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
• The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
• There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
• There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
• There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
• There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
• Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
• 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.
• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
• We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
• We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.