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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
-George Bernard Shaw
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
-George Bernard Shaw
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You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
-George Bernard Shaw
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
-George Bernard Shaw
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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
-George Bernard Shaw
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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Ability
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Actors, Acting
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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.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Advice
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Age
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
-George Bernard Shaw
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America
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
-George Bernard Shaw, "Reader's Digest", November, 1942
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Anarchy
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Angels
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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Apathy
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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Argument & Debate
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Art
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Atheism
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Authors & Writing
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Books by and about George Bernard Shaw