George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 3

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
George Bernard Shaw
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
George Bernard Shaw
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
George Bernard Shaw
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
George Bernard Shaw
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it.
George Bernard Shaw
The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.
George Bernard Shaw
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
George Bernard Shaw
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
George Bernard Shaw
But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it’s arranged the other way...
George Bernard Shaw
CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but it’s not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
George Bernard Shaw
Some donkeys have amazing luck.
George Bernard Shaw
Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.
George Bernard Shaw
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
George Bernard Shaw
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
Loyalty in a critic is corruption.
George Bernard Shaw
My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.
George Bernard Shaw
How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!
George Bernard Shaw
And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation. (P. 56)
George Bernard Shaw
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
George Bernard Shaw
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Bernard Shaw
How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
George Bernard Shaw