Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.

It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

You scandalous woman, will you throw away even your hypocrisy?

You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

There is no physical gulf between the philosopher's class room and the bull ring; but the bull fighters do not come to the class room for all that.

But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.

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