George Bernard Shaw Quotes
+26There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
– George Bernard Shaw
+14Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw
+5The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
+4I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
- George Bernard Shaw
+3When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3I don’t want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw
+2The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The 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
+1An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Property is organized robbery.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Don’t ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?”
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1If 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
+1Most people do not pray; they only beg.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1I 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
+1When a man wants to murder a tiger, it’s called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it’s called ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw
