George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.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
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.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
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these 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
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.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
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation.George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.George Bernard Shaw
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.George Bernard Shaw
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.George Bernard Shaw
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.George Bernard Shaw
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.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
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 only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.George Bernard Shaw
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.George Bernard Shaw
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.George Bernard Shaw
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true.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
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.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
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.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
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
