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George
Bernard Shaw Quotes
A broken heart is
a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable
income.
George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is
nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain
digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into
pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
A genius can't be
forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard Shaw
A government that
robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is
but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent
making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
A little learning
is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as
much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells
you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
A man of great
common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality
or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
A mind of the
calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual
holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the
anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
All great truths
begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
All my life
affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made
has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Am reserving two
tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have
one.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me
and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the
sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw
An election is a
moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for
every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman
thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
An index is a
great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my
friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is
the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the
great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a
short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Better keep
yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must
see the world.
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
Capitalism has
destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest
backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw
Censorship ends in
logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except
the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
Choose silence of
all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal
your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Clever and
attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men
govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw
Crude
classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized
life.
George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty would be
delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't
really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a
perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a
device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a
form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many
for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy
substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the
corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto
others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be
the same.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not try to live
forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not waste your
time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty;
what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
England and
America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man over
forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Every person who
has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens
to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Except during the
nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his
affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Fashions are the
only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by
tradesmen.
George Bernard Shaw
Fashions, after
all, are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
Few of us have
vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
Find enough clever
things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're
a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw
First love is only
a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
Forgive him, for
he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
George Bernard Shaw
General consultant
to mankind.
George Bernard Shaw
Give a man health
and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether
he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Hatred is the
coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing
and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political
career.
George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does.
He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
He's a man of
great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without
originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right
when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn
anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of
musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
Home life is no
more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw
How can what an
Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
George Bernard Shaw
I absolutely
forbid any such outrage.
George Bernard Shaw
I dislike feeling
at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy
convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw
I learned long
ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig
likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
I never resist
temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not
tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
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