Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

You see things; you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Animals are my friends...and I dont eat my friends.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. Its the funniest joke in the world.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

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

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

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw.He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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

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.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings ones heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

Dont think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.