George Bernard Shaw
143 quotations
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.