George Bernard Shaw
143 quotations
I want to be all used up when I die.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.