Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The other is to get it.

I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Give a man health and a course to steer and hell never stop to trouble about whether hes happy or not.