George Bernard Shaw quotes

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.”

— George Bernard Shaw