Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned”

“Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones”

“A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth”

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”

“What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.”

“Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization”

“I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”

“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.”

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

“He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career”

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

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”

“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap”

“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

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

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

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