George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George bernard shaw - reasonable people adapt themselves to the world....
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
George bernard shaw - reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in...
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
George bernard shaw - disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of...
An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
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
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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 and do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
George Bernard Shaw