Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

My reputation grows with every failure.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Syllables govern the world.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Independence? Thats middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.