George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
George Bernard Shaw
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
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
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.
George Bernard Shaw
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.
George Bernard Shaw
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
George Bernard Shaw
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
George Bernard Shaw
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw