George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.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
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.George Bernard Shaw
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.George Bernard Shaw
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.George Bernard Shaw
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.George Bernard Shaw
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.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
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.George Bernard Shaw
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.George Bernard Shaw
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.George Bernard Shaw
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.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
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.George Bernard Shaw
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation.George Bernard Shaw
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.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
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.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
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.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
