Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Don't 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.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.