George Bernard Shaw Quotes

What is life but a series of inspired follies?

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Liberty means responsibility. That’s why most men dread it.

[Lord Rosebery] was a man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity.

You see things, and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not ?’

Who is this ‘Babe’ Ruth? And what does she do?

There is no reason why the infield should not try to put the batter off his stride at the critical moment, by neatly-timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability.

No sportsman wants to kill a fox or the pheasant as I want to kill him when I see him doing it.

That’s the difference between us. You talk of art Mr Goldwyn, I think of money.

[The Red Flag] is the funeral march of a fried eel.

The fact is, there are no rules and there never were any rules, and there never will be any rules of musical composition except rules of thumb; and thumbs vary in length, like ears.

As interesting as a wall can be.

Many men would hardly miss their heads, there is so little in them.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.

How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.