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Prophecy
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Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?
-George Bernard Shaw
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Purpose
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Questions
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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Quotations
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Reading
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
-George Bernard Shaw
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Reason
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Religion
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
-George Bernard Shaw
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
-George Bernard Shaw
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
-George Bernard Shaw
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Reputation
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My reputation grew with every failure.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Respect
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Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
-George Bernard Shaw
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Rest, Leisure
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Restraint
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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Retirement
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Revolution
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Right, Rightness
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Royalty, Kings, Queens
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Sacrifice
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Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Books by and about George Bernard Shaw