George Bernard Shaw quotes

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'”

— 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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”

— George Bernard Shaw