8 Quotes by Bernard Shaw

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. Theres only one way of escaping trouble; and thats killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.

My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

- What will History say?- History, sir, will lie. As always.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

If Joan was mad, all Christendom was mad too; for people who believe devoutly in the existence of celestial personages are every whit as mad as the people who think they see them. Luther, when he threw his inkhorn at the devil, was no more mad than any other Augustinian monk: he had a more vivid imagination, and hd perhaps eaten and slept less: that was all.

I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you.