George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 2

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
George Bernard Shaw
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
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 upon the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
George Bernard Shaw
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
George Bernard Shaw
Most people do not pray they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
George Bernard Shaw
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
George Bernard Shaw
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
George Bernard Shaw
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
Morality is not respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
George Bernard Shaw
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
George Bernard Shaw
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
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
George Bernard Shaw
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.
George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
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
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw