Quotes

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” George Bernard Shaw

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.” George Bernard Shaw

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.” George Bernard Shaw

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” George Bernard Shaw

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” George Bernard Shaw

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.” George Bernard Shaw

“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.” George Bernard Shaw

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

“You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'” George Bernard Shaw

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.” George Bernard Shaw

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.” George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard Shaw

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.” George Bernard Shaw

“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” George Bernard Shaw

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.” George Bernard Shaw

“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.” George Bernard Shaw

“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.” George Bernard Shaw

“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.” George Bernard Shaw

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” George Bernard Shaw

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” George Bernard Shaw

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” George Bernard Shaw

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” George Bernard Shaw

“Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.” George Bernard Shaw

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” George Bernard Shaw

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” George Bernard Shaw

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.” George Bernard Shaw

“Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.” George Bernard Shaw

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.” George Bernard Shaw

“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.” George Bernard Shaw

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” George Bernard Shaw