George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…

But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.