Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"A man of great common sense and good taste--meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

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

"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."

"Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

"How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?"

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations."

"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

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

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."