Top 232 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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.

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 can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.