George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Life, Love, and Change

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.