George Bernard Shaw quotes

“An index is a great leveller.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Better never than late.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be all used up when I die.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“My reputation grows with every failure.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Property is organized robbery.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”

— George Bernard Shaw