Inspiring Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.