Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? ---- in Back to Methuselah, part 1, act 1

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.