Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.