George Bernard Shaw

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.