Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

The liars punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

You dont learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Morality is not respectability.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

A days work is a days work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a days sustenance a nights repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents first duty.

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

The philosopher is Natures pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

The philosopher is Natures pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.