Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say 'Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

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

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the World.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.

Whiskey is liquid sunshine.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I am known for my sense of irony but even I would not have come to think of putting a Statue of Liberty into the New York Harbour.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.