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Marriage
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
-George Bernard Shaw
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This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Memory
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Men
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Men & Women
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Miracles
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Mirrors
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Mistakes
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Money
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Morals
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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-George Bernard Shaw
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Music
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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
-George Bernard Shaw
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Opportunity
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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.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
-George Bernard Shaw, O'Flaherty, V.C.
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Patronize, Patronizing
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She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.
-George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (CH. XVIII)
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Books by and about George Bernard Shaw