George Bernard Shaw quotes

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Most people do not pray; they only beg.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.”

— George Bernard Shaw