The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

— George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

— George Bernard Shaw
Short About Life Desire About Feelings

Youth is wasted on the young.

— George Bernard Shaw
Short About Life Witty Demotivational Funny About Life

The harder I work the more I live.

— George Bernard Shaw
Friday for Work

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

— George Bernard Shaw

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

— George Bernard Shaw
Real

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

— George Bernard Shaw

All progress means war with society.

— George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

— George Bernard Shaw

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

— George Bernard Shaw

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

— George Bernard Shaw

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

— George Bernard Shaw
Country

UNDERSHAFT. I will not call my wife Britomart: it is not good sense.

— George Bernard Shaw

In eighteenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Diderot there.

— George Bernard Shaw

At the end of the book you know Micawber, whereas you only know what has happened to David, and are not interested enough in him to wonder what his politics or religion might be if anything so stupendous as a religious or political idea, or a general idea of any sort, were to occur to him. He is tolerable as a child; but he never becomes a man, and might be left out of his own biography altogether but for his usefulness as a stage confidant.

— George Bernard Shaw

Don Juan’s supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails. Of that antagonist, and of that conception of repentance, how much is left that could be used in a play by me dedicated to you?

— George Bernard Shaw

Here there is nothing but love and beauty. Ugh! it is like sitting for all eternity at the first act of a fashionable play, before the complications begin.

— George Bernard Shaw
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