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George
Bernard Shaw Quotes
I never thought
much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least
safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote
myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
I want to be all
used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw
I want to be
thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I
rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
I'm an atheist and
I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw
I'm only a beer
teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw
If all the
economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats
itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of
learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
If parents would
only realize how they bore their children!
George Bernard Shaw
If you can't get
rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get
rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
If you injure your
neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold
yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a
warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the
beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you
imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all
you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that
it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw
In heaven an angel
is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
In this world
there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Independence?
That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another,
every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to
be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise
for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of
a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
It was from Handel
that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
George Bernard Shaw
It's so hard to
know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is
the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means
responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life contains but
two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to
get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not
cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious
when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about
finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Life levels all
men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross
exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Man can climb to
the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an
alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut,
and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom: The
only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in
proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for
experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Men have to do
some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
Miracles, in the
sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life
itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw
Most people do not
pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
My reputation
grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an
only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
Never waste
jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all
in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
No man ever
believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that
it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
No man who is
occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever
loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw
No question is so
difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is ever
done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is
not done.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is worth
doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw
Oh, the tiger will
love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Only on paper has
humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and
abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a
very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever
imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your
conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because
you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not only
better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
People become
attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached
to them.
George Bernard Shaw
People who say it
cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the
greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country
and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
Political
necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard Shaw
Power does not
corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power,
corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
Property is
organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don
Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
Science never
solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice
enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the
art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the
most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
Socialism is the
same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw
Some look at
things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask
why not?
George Bernard Shaw
Statistics show
that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
Success does not
consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a
second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Syllables govern
the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get
what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
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