George Bernard Shaw Quotes about People

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.