Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other mens imperfections, and conceal your own.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise theyll kill you.”

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”

“The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.”

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

“La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite.”

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

“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”