Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“Silence is not always golden; sometimes it is yellow”

“Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?”

“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.”

“The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist”

“When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind”

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”

“Military men are the scourges of the world”

“The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits”

“Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood”

“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”

“When we set truth on its head we usually fail to notice that our head too is not standing where it ought to stand.”

“It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.”

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your hearts desire. The other is to gain it.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.