Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

— George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

— George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

— George Bernard Shaw

But I can't stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. What's the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, there's no good pretending it’s arranged the other way...

— George Bernard Shaw

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

— George Bernard Shaw

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self-interest backed by force.

— George Bernard Shaw

CHARTERS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Don't. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but it’s not their business to tell it to me. I don't like it: it hurts.

— George Bernard Shaw

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

— George Bernard Shaw