Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.