George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw

All progress means war with society.
George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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 are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw

My reputation grew with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
George Bernard Shaw

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
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

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw