George Bernard Shaw
Quotes
1. “The things most
people want to know about are usually none of their business.” – George Bernard Shaw
2. “Common people do
not pray; they only beg.” – George Bernard Shaw
3. “A government that
robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” – George Bernard Shaw
4. “There is nothing
that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in
hand early enough.” – George Bernard Shaw
5. “Clever and
attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as
long as they govern men.” – George Bernard Shaw
6. “Youth, which is
forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself
everything, is forgiven nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
7. “Youth is such a
wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” – George Bernard Shaw
8. “Even the youngest
of us may be wrong sometimes.” – George Bernard Shaw
9. “It is all that
the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.” – George Bernard Shaw
10.
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only
man who writes about all people and about all time.” – George Bernard
Shaw
11.
“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters that I
never tried to earn an honest living.” – George Bernard Shaw
12.
“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to
unwrap.” – George Bernard Shaw
Comparison on differences and similarities between Greek and Roman mythology
13.
“The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for
her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.” – George Bernard
Shaw
14.
“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes
my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old
measurements and expect me to fit them.” – George Bernard Shaw
15.
“Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ I of dream
things that never were and say ‘Why not?’– George Bernard Shaw
16.
“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by
the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” – George Bernard Shaw
17.
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not
desiring it.” – George Bernard
Shaw
18.
“The only alternative to excitement is irritability.” – George Bernard Shaw
19.
“I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.” – George Bernard Shaw
20.
“Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot
make the truth appear so.” – George Bernard
Shaw
21.
“Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have
made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.” – George Bernard Shaw
22.
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think
otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.” – George Bernard Shaw
23.
“I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.”
– George Bernard Shaw
24.
“A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes
superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to
listen to scientific lectures.” – George Bernard Shaw
25.
“Decency is indecency’s conspiracy of silence.” – George Bernard Shaw
26.
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody
guesses.” – George Bernard Shaw
27.
“Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without
creating ten more.” – George Bernard
Shaw
28.
“What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter
with the rich is uselessness.” – George Bernard Shaw
29.
“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.” – George Bernard Shaw
30.
“Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has
reached its goal.” – George Bernard
Shaw
31.
“No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer
is obvious.” – George Bernard
Shaw
32.
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they
have only shifted it to another shoulder.” – George Bernard Shaw
33.
“I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my
life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and
dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is
going rotten.” – George Bernard Shaw
34.
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
– George Bernard Shaw
35.
“All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions,
and executed by supplanting existing institutions.” – George Bernard Shaw
36.
“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil
too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.” – George Bernard Shaw
37.
“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without
blushing.” – George Bernard Shaw
38.
“The nations’ morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they
are the more it hurts to touch them.”
39.
“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he
is.” – George Bernard Shaw
40.
“Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly
afraid of.” – George Bernard Shaw
41.
“A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose
and nature of miracles.” – George Bernard Shaw
42.
“Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive:
therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.” – George Bernard Shaw
43.
“If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically,
there would be an end of the race.” – George Bernard Shaw
44.
“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.” – George Bernard Shaw
45.
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of
temptation with the maximum of opportunity.” – George Bernard Shaw
46.
“It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible,
and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.” – George Bernard Shaw
47.
“The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all
whose minds are not strong enough to master her.” – George Bernard Shaw
48.
“We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have
landed us!” – George Bernard Shaw
49.
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the
literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.” – George Bernard Shaw
50.
“Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the
compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice
between labor and starvation.” – George Bernard Shaw