Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Advice And Thoughts
Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes
1 – All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. – George Bernard Shaw
2 – What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods. – George Bernard Shaw
3 – The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. – George Bernard Shaw
4 – Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. – George Bernard Shaw
5 – Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. – George Bernard Shaw
6 – Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. – George Bernard Shaw
7 – Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. – George Bernard Shaw
8 – A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. – George Bernard Shaw
9 – There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. – George Bernard Shaw
10 – While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? – George Bernard Shaw
11 – I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. – George Bernard Shaw
12 – What is a virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? – George Bernard Shaw
13 – 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
14 – Property is organized robbery. – George Bernard Shaw
15 – 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
16 – An index is a great leveller. – George Bernard Shaw
17 – The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. – George Bernard Shaw
18 – Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. – George Bernard Shaw
19 – We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. – George Bernard Shaw
20 – Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare. – George Bernard Shaw
21 – 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
22 – Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. – George Bernard Shaw
23 – Homelife is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. – George Bernard Shaw
24 – There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. – George Bernard Shaw
25 – What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? – George Bernard Shaw
26 – I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. – George Bernard Shaw
27 – You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. – George Bernard Shaw
28 – Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. – George Bernard Shaw
29 – I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile. – George Bernard Shaw
30 – When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any. – George Bernard Shaw
31 – The love of economy is the root of all virtue. – George Bernard Shaw
32 – An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. – George Bernard Shaw
33 – 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
34 – The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. – George Bernard Shaw
35 – It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. – George Bernard Shaw
36 – Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. – George Bernard Shaw
37 – The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. – George Bernard Shaw
38 – 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
39 – Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. – George Bernard Shaw
40 – All great truths begin as blasphemies. – George Bernard Shaw
41 – I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself. – George Bernard Shaw
42 – My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion. – George Bernard Shaw
43 – The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man. – George Bernard Shaw
44 – The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man. – George Bernard Shaw
45 – A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception. – George Bernard Shaw
46 – Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw
47 – Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. – George Bernard Shaw
48 – 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
49 – Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. – George Bernard Shaw
50 – Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. – George Bernard Shaw
51 – My reputation grows with every failure. – George Bernard Shaw
52 – Syllables govern the world. – George Bernard Shaw
53 – A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. – George Bernard Shaw
54 – I want to be all used up when I die. – George Bernard Shaw
55 – The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. – George Bernard Shaw
56 – If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. – George Bernard Shaw
57 – Very few people can afford to be poor. – George Bernard Shaw
58 – The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honour. – George Bernard Shaw
59 – We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. – George Bernard Shaw
60 – Virtue is an insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw
61 – The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. – George Bernard Shaw
62 – It is most unwise for people in love to marry. – George Bernard Shaw
63 – Every person who has mastered a profession is a sceptic concerning it. – George Bernard Shaw
64 – Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. – George Bernard Shaw
65 – Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? – George Bernard Shaw
66 – Youth is wasted on the young. – George Bernard Shaw
67 – She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. – George Bernard Shaw
68 – He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. – George Bernard Shaw
69 – Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. – George Bernard Shaw
70 – There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. – George Bernard Shaw
71 – Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. – George Bernard Shaw
72 – He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. – George Bernard Shaw
73 – An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. – George Bernard Shaw
74 – You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw
75 – What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. – George Bernard Shaw
76 – Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. – George Bernard Shaw
77 – Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. – George Bernard Shaw
78 – It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. – George Bernard Shaw
79 – England and America are two countries separated by the same language. – George Bernard Shaw
80 – The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. – George Bernard Shaw
