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Sacrifice
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Sadness
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
-George Bernard Shaw
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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.
-George Bernard Shaw
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Sanity
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Satisfaction
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Science
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Secrets
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
-George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
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Service
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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Shame
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Silence
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Sincerity
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Singing
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Sleep
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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Soul
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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Style
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A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Success & Failure
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
-George Bernard Shaw
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Talent
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Taxation
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Teaching
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-George Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Thought
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Books by and about George Bernard Shaw