Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWDemocracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWHatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThere are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWBoth optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWBetter keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWImitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhat you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhy should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThere is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWPatriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhen a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWOnly in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWTo be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW