All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown. George Bernard Shaw moneyhumorousfunny The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. George Bernard Shaw reformersworld If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate. George Bernard Shaw pygmalionappreciateifs What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. George Bernard Shaw faithmenbelieve What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day. George Bernard Shaw pygmalionopportunityinspirational Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. George Bernard Shaw foolmenjesus I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. George Bernard Shaw namesbookyears My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. George Bernard Shaw clientsliteraturedresses The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. George Bernard Shaw something-betteraudiencedrama Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads. George Bernard Shaw forcepurposebrain Success covers a multitude of blunders. George Bernard Shaw congratulationssuccessinspirational [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. George Bernard Shaw stupidcleverlife Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. George Bernard Shaw censorshiplogicalbook We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems. George Bernard Shaw humanitymenscience An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. George Bernard Shaw patrioticinsultingfighting Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. George Bernard Shaw healthhappyhappiness It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful. George Bernard Shaw beautifulbeautyway Woman reduces us all to the common denominator. George Bernard Shaw womenangercommon Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand. George Bernard Shaw democracyusemen The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. George Bernard Shaw qualityplayideas
