George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.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
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.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
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.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
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.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
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
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.George Bernard Shaw
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.George Bernard Shaw
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.George Bernard Shaw
When 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
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
Chess 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
The love of money is the root of all virtue.George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.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
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
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.George Bernard Shaw
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?George Bernard Shaw
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.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
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.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
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.George Bernard Shaw
