George Bernard Shaw Quotes
+11The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
+11My reputation grows with every failure.
- George Bernard Shaw
+9The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
+5Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety five percent of the people would rather than die than think.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
- George Bernard Shaw
+1It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1I look my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses?
- George Bernard Shaw
+1A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
- George Bernard Shaw