George Bernard Shaw Quotes

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
George bernard shaw - i can forgive alfred nobel for having invented...
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
George bernard shaw - the only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he...
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
George bernard shaw - life is no brief candle to me. it is a sort of...
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for 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
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one universal passion fear.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
George Bernard Shaw
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw