Quotable quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

 
 There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve

 

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own

 

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

 

 The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.