George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.George Bernard Shaw
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.George Bernard Shaw
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.George Bernard Shaw
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.George Bernard Shaw
There is only one universal passion fear.George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
Activity is the only road to knowledge.George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.George Bernard Shaw
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.George Bernard Shaw
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.George Bernard Shaw
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.George Bernard Shaw
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.George Bernard Shaw
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.George Bernard Shaw
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.George Bernard Shaw
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.George Bernard Shaw
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.George Bernard Shaw
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.George Bernard Shaw
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.George Bernard Shaw
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
