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George
Bernard Shaw Quotes
The art of
government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
The best place to
find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw
The British
soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a
believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the
fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
The faults of the
burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of
the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the
women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
The first
condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is
that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
The great
advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw
The liar's
punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he
cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
The love of
economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes
about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all
people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw
The man with a
toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The
poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
The minority is
sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want
to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and
become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
The natural term
of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw
The only secrets
are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
The only service a
friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to
you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The only way to
avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether
you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
The people who get
on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
The perfect love
affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw
The possibilities
are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw
The power of
accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not
got it.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of
being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are
happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
The test of a man
or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
The things most
people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with
her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of
speech.
George Bernard Shaw
The truth is,
hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really
inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin
toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent
to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
There are only two
classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the
neurotic classes.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two
tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to
gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no
satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no
sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one
religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Use your health,
even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all
you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Very few people
can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is
insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
Vivisection is a
social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the
expense of human character.
George Bernard Shaw
We are all
dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise
not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our
future.
George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop
playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
We have no more
right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
We learn from
experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
We must always
think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as
they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman
will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor
car?
George Bernard Shaw
What is virtue but
the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to
see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of
the child.
George Bernard Shaw
When a man says
money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man
is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his
duty.
George Bernard Shaw
When I was young,
I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did
ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
Which painting in
the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest
the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take
advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he
shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw
Why, except as a
means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he
has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
Without art, the
crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
You are going to
let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that
you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
You can always
tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes.
The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw
You cannot be a
hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw
You see things;
and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why
not?"
George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have
a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a
wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on
the young.
George Bernard Shaw
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