Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

• A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
• A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
• A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
• A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
• Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
• All great truths begin as blasphemies.
• All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
• An index is a great leveller.
• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
• Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
• Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
• Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
• Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
• Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
• Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
• Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
• Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
• Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
• Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
• He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
• Hell is full of musical amateurs.
• Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
• I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
• I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
• I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.