Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.-- George Bernard Shaw
He believes in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them.-- George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.-- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.-- George Bernard Shaw
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."-- George Bernard Shaw
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.-- George Bernard Shaw
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."-- George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.-- George Bernard Shaw
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.-- George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.-- George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-- George Bernard Shaw
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.-- George Bernard Shaw
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.-- George Bernard Shaw