Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

• 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.