George Bernard Shaw quotes

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as
their lunatic asylum.
George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you
imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

You see things; you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

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

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a
mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw