Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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

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

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

An index is a great leveller.

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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

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

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

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

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.