But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 1.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 1.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
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 Man and Superman, Act 1.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
You think that you are Ann’s suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued … Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 2.
MENDOZA: I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich. TANNER: I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 3.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 3.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 3, Don Juan.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allows them to do. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 3.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 3.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 3.
