More George Bernard Shaw Quotes

1. A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unst ...
   
2. A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. ...
   
3. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, scie ...
   
4. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can alway ...
   
5. A learned man is an idler who kills time with stud ...
   
6. A life spent making mistakes is not only more hono ...
   
7. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear i ...
   
8. A man never tells you anything until you contradic ...
   
9. A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife with ...
   
10. A perpetual holiday is a good working definition o ...
    
11. A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himsel ...
    
12. Activity is the only road to knowledge. ...
    
13. Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes li ...
    
14. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the o ...
    
15. All censorships exist to prevent any one from chal ...
    
16. All great truths begin as blasphemies. ...
    
17. All my life, affection has been showered upon me, ...
    
18. All professions are conspiracies against the laity ...
    
19. Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until ...
    
20. An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only u ...
    
21. An institution which is populare because it combin ...
    
22. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for livi ...
    
23. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ...
    
24. Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hid ...
    
25. Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of b ...
    
26. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the ...
    
27. Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. ...
    
28. Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle peopl ...
    
29. Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever ...
    
30. Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ...
    
31. Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They ...
    
32. Crude classifications and false generalizations ar ...
    
33. Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be gov ...
    
34. Democracy: The substitution of election by the inc ...
    
35. Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of th ...
    
36. Do not do unto others as you would that they shoul ...
    
37. Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What i ...
    
38. Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks ...
    
39. Do you think that the things people make fools of ...
    
40. England and America are two countries separated by ...
    
41. Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to u ...
    
42. Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ...
    
43. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if ...
    
44. Except during the nine months before he draws his ...
    
45. Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving t ...
    
46. Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our ...
    
47. Few people think more than two or three times a ye ...
    
48. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot ...
    
49. Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of h ...
    
50. Gambling promises the poor what property performs ...
    
51. Great Britain and the United States are nations se ...
    
52. He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. T ...
    
53. He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ...
    
54. He who has never hoped can never despair. ...
    
55. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from hi ...
    
56. Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the bran ...
    
57. Home life as we understand it is no more natural t ...
    
58. I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. ...
    
59. I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. ...
    
60. I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dyn ...
    
61. I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find ...
    
62. I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of th ...
    
63. I never resist temptation because I have found tha ...
    
64. I never thought much of the courage of a lion-tame ...
    
65. I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversa ...
    
66. I showed my appreciation of my native land in the ...
    
67. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for th ...
    
68. I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom ...
    
69. If all economists were laid end to end, they would ...
    
70. If history repeats itself, and the unexpected alwa ...
    
71. If more than ten percent of the population likes a ...
    
72. If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a ...
    
73. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you ...
    
74. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we ex ...
    
75. If you have built castles in the air, your work ne ...
    
76. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imag ...
    
77. In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ...
    
78. In order to fully realize how bad a popular play c ...
    
79. In this world there is always danger for those who ...
    
80. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also ...
    
81. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mou ...
    
82. It is most unwise for people in love to marry. ...
    
83. It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, ...
    
84. It's all that the young can do for the old, to sho ...
    
85. Lack of money is the root of all evil. ...
    
86. Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing a ...
    
87. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men ...
    
88. Life does not cease to be funny when people die an ...
    
89. Life is a disease; and the only diference between ...
    
90. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of spl ...
    
91. Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take c ...
    
92. Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. ...
    
93. Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference b ...
    
94. Make money and the whole nation will conspire to c ...
    
95. Man can climb to the highest summits, but he canno ...
    
96. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who ...
    
97. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can be ...
    
98. Money enables us to get what we want instead of wh ...
    
99. My main reason for adopting literature as a profes ...
    
100. My method is to take the utmost trouble to find th ...
     
101. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the f ...
     
102. No man can be a pure specialist without being in t ...
     
103. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it ...
     
104. No man fully capable of his own language ever mast ...
     
105. Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimme ...
     
106. Nothing ever is done in this world until men are p ...
     
107. Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may ...
     
108. One man that has a mind and knows it can always be ...
     
109. Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thin ...
     
110. Parentage is a very important profession, but no t ...
     
111. Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of i ...
     
112. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is ...
     
113. People are always blaming their circumstances for ...
     
114. Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, ...
     
115. Progress is impossible without change, and those w ...
     
116. Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing wh ...
     
117. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. U ...
     
118. Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suici ...
     
119. Science never solves a problem without creating te ...
     
120. Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect ...
     
121. Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other peopl ...
     
122. Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. ...
     
123. Success covers a multitude of blunders. ...
     
124. Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, si ...
     
125. Take care to get what you like or you will be forc ...
     
126. Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to ...
     
127. The 100% American is 99% an idiot. ...
     
128. The art of government is the organization of idola ...
     
129. The chief objection of playing wind instruments is ...
     
130. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach ...
     
131. The English have no respect for their language, an ...
     
132. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic ...
     
133. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalle ...
     
134. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. ...
     
135. The longer I live the more I see that I am never w ...
     
136. The love of money is the root of all virtue. ...
     
137. The man who listens to Reason is lost reason ensla ...
     
138. The moment we want to believe something, we sudden ...
     
139. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more resp ...
     
140. The notion that the colonel need be a better man t ...
     
141. The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he ...
     
142. The only service a friend can really render is to ...
     
143. The people who get on in this world are the people ...
     
144. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted ...
     
145. The power of accurate observation is commonly call ...
     
146. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the ...
     
147. The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone th ...
     
148. The secret of being miserable is to have the leisu ...
     
149. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power o ...
     
150. The world is populated in the main by people who s ...
     
151. The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not t ...
     
152. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets ...
     
153. There are some experiences in life which should no ...
     
154. There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get ...
     
155. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ...
     
156. There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does ...
     
157. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ...
     
158. There is only one religion, though there are a hun ...
     
159. There is only one universal passion fear. ...
     
160. This is the true joy in life, the being used for a ...
     
161. To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, ...
     
162. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it o ...
     
163. Virtue is insufficient temptation. ...
     
164. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advance ...
     
165. We are made wise not by the recollection of our pa ...
     
166. We are told that when Jehovah created the world he ...
     
167. We don't bother much about dress and manners in En ...
     
168. We don't stop playing because we grow old we grow ...
     
169. We have no more right to consume happiness without ...
     
170. We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it ...
     
171. We learn from experience that men never learn anyt ...
     
172. We must make the world honest before we can honest ...
     
173. We should all be obliged to appear before a board ...
     
174. We should have had socialism already, but for the ...
     
175. What God hath joined together no man shall put asu ...
     
176. What is life but a seires of inspired follies The ...
     
177. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what ...
     
178. What is the use of straining after an amiable view ...
     
179. What is virtue but the trades unionism of the marr ...
     
180. What use are cartridges in battle I always carry c ...
     
181. What we call education and culture is for the most ...
     
182. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of kno ...
     
183. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it spo ...
     
184. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed ...
     
185. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a h ...
     
186. When the world goes mad, one must accept madness a ...
     
187. While we ourselves are the living graves of murder ...
     
188. Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If ...
     
189. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make t ...
     
190. Women upset everything. When you let them into you ...
     
191. You are going to let the fear of poverty govern yo ...
     
192. You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream ...
     
193. You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the ...
     
194. Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste ...
     
195. Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itse ...