George Bernard Shaw And Quotations

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Morality is not respectability.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.