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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have. — George Bernard Shaw

There are two things necessary to Salvation ... Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. — George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. — George Bernard Shaw

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. — George Bernard Shaw

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet. — 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

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. — George Bernard Shaw

Woman reduces us all to a common denominator. — George Bernard Shaw

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw

Any belief worth having must survive doubt — George Bernard Shaw

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound. — George Bernard Shaw

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. — George Bernard Shaw

If parents would only realize how they bore their children. — George Bernard Shaw

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. — George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. — George Bernard Shaw

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. — George Bernard Shaw

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not. — George Bernard Shaw

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill. — George Bernard Shaw

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. — George Bernard Shaw

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?. — George Bernard Shaw

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend. — George Bernard Shaw

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. — George Bernard Shaw

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. — Michael Moorcock

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. — George Bernard Shaw

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. — George Bernard Shaw

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw. — George Bernard Shaw

The stock actor is a stage calamity — George Bernard Shaw

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid. — George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. — George Bernard Shaw

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy. — George Bernard Shaw

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. — George Bernard Shaw

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine. — George Bernard Shaw

The great secret ... is not having bad manners or good manners ... but having the same manner for all human souls. — George Bernard Shaw

Money is a most important thing in the world. — George Bernard Shaw

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. — George Bernard Shaw

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire. — George Bernard Shaw

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. — George Bernard Shaw

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist — George Bernard Shaw

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable. — George Bernard Shaw

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion — George Bernard Shaw

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination. — George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. — George Bernard Shaw

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. — George Bernard Shaw

The 100% American is 99% idiot. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything. — George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw

Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible — George Bernard Shaw

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. — George Bernard Shaw

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession. — George Bernard Shaw

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday. — George Bernard Shaw

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw

I do not know what I think until I write it. — George Bernard Shaw

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. — George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. — George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

In heaven an angel is no one in particular. — George Bernard Shaw

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. — George Bernard Shaw

General consultant to mankind. — George Bernard Shaw

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — George Bernard Shaw

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality ... — George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge. — George Bernard Shaw

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. — George Bernard Shaw

Shall I turn up the light for you?
No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. — George Bernard Shaw

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. — George Bernard Shaw

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. — George Bernard Shaw

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future. — George Bernard Shaw

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married. — George Bernard Shaw

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. — George Bernard Shaw

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness. — George Bernard Shaw

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. — George Bernard Shaw

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough? — George Bernard Shaw

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. — George Bernard Shaw

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore. — George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair — George Bernard Shaw

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. — George Bernard Shaw

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. — George Bernard Shaw

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. — George Bernard Shaw

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. — George Bernard Shaw

Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same. — George Bernard Shaw