George Bernard Shaw
143 quotations
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.