Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

• 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.
• 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.