Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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

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.

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

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasnt got any.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.