George Bernard Shaw Quotes

An index is a great leveller.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.