George Bernard Shaw Quotes Ideas and Inspiration

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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

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.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Property is organized robbery.