George Bernard Shaw Quotes
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.George Bernard Shaw
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say nowGeorge Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
There is only one universal passion fear.George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich - - Something for nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on 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
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 man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.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
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.George Bernard Shaw
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.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
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
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
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.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
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.George Bernard Shaw
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.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
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.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
