Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting consition continuously until death do them part.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means"

Youth is wasted on the young.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. 

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he out does nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Never waste jealousy on  a real man; it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.