Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

He who can does. He who cant teaches.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

The great advantage of a hotel is that its a refuge from home life.

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who havent and dont.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

All great truths began as blasphemies.

Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.

It is a womans business to get married as soon as possible and a mans to keep unmarried as long as he can.

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Womans dearest delight is to wound Mans self-conceit though Mans dearest delight is to gratify hers.

I work as my father drank.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didnt want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Its all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.