38+ Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

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

"You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?"

"You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?"

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself."

"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."

"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."