Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

“Success covers a multitude of blunders.”

“He who can does. He who can't teaches.”

“Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”

“One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”

“All great truths began as blasphemies.”

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.”

“The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”

“Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.”

“I work as my father drank.”

“When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.”

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

“Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.”

“It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.”

“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing au...”

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”