[ george bernard shaw Quotes ]
143 Quotations (Page 2 of 3 pages)
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
[ Economy and Economics ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
[ Language ]
George Bernard Shaw
6 votes
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
[ Perfection ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
[ Men and Women ]
George Bernard Shaw
6 votes
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
[ Angels ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
[ Plays ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
[ Danger ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
[ Youth ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
[ Generations ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
[ Kings ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
[ Money ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
[ Servants ]
George Bernard Shaw
7 votes
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
[ Liberty ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
[ Amusement ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
[ Exaggeration ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
[ Achievement ]
George Bernard Shaw
5 votes
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
[ Men ]
George Bernard Shaw
6 votes
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
[ Marriage ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
[ Ability ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
[ Experience ]
George Bernard Shaw
5 votes
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
[ Morality ]
George Bernard Shaw
5 votes
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
[ Religion ]
George Bernard Shaw
4 votes
My reputation grew with every failure.
[ Reputation ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
[ Jokes and Jokers ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
[ Jealousy ]
George Bernard Shaw
4 votes
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
[ Experts ]
George Bernard Shaw
4 votes
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
[ Questions ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
[ Reasonableness ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
[ Consequences ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
[ Work ]
George Bernard Shaw
2 votes
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
[ Health ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
[ Age and Aging ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
[ Desire ]
George Bernard Shaw
6 votes
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
[ Patriotism ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
[ Peace ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
[ Power ]
George Bernard Shaw
4 votes
Property is organized robbery.
[ Property ]
George Bernard Shaw
7 votes
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
George Bernard Shaw
5 votes
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
[ Memory ]
George Bernard Shaw
4 votes
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
[ Science and Scientists ]
George Bernard Shaw
3 votes