George Bernard Shaw

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

George Bernard Shaw

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

George Bernard Shaw

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

George Bernard Shaw

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary, more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw