George Bernard Shaw Quotes That Will Give You New Outlook

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.