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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
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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