George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

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

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

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

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.

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

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.