[ george bernard shaw Quotes ]
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
[ Heartbreak ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
[ Fellowship ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
[ Taxes and Taxation ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
[ Happiness ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
[ Vegetarianism ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
[ Interest ]
George Bernard Shaw
25 votes
A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
[ Dance and Dancing ]
George Bernard Shaw
14 votes
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
[ Hell ]
George Bernard Shaw
20 votes
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
[ Pessimism ]
George Bernard Shaw
16 votes
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
[ Truth ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
All problems are finally scientific problems.
[ Problems ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
[ Professions and Professionals ]
George Bernard Shaw
15 votes
All progress means war with society.
[ Progress ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
[ Morality ]
George Bernard Shaw
21 votes
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
[ Dissatisfaction ]
George Bernard Shaw
22 votes
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
[ Assassination ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
[ Virtue ]
George Bernard Shaw
16 votes
Better never than late.
[ Punctuality ]
George Bernard Shaw
14 votes
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
[ Payment ]
George Bernard Shaw
14 votes
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
[ Democracy ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
[ Giving ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
[ Uncategorised ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
[ Youth ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
[ Age and Aging ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
[ Experience ]
George Bernard Shaw
15 votes
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
[ Forgiveness ]
George Bernard Shaw
20 votes
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
[ Gambling ]
George Bernard Shaw
15 votes
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
[ Arts and Artists ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
[ Hatred ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
[ Motives ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
He who has never hoped can never despair.
[ Hope ]
George Bernard Shaw
18 votes
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
[ Music ]
George Bernard Shaw
23 votes
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
[ Intentions ]
George Bernard Shaw
19 votes
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
[ Contradiction ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
[ Books - Reading ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
[ Humankind ]
George Bernard Shaw
16 votes