George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
There can be two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which habitually acts.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
