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

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.
George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
George Bernard Shaw

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
George Bernard Shaw

You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
George Bernard Shaw

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man insists on adapting the world to himself; therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man
George Bernard Shaw

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw

A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
George Bernard Shaw

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
George Bernard Shaw

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
George Bernard Shaw

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
George Bernard Shaw

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
George Bernard Shaw

A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw