George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
George Bernard Shaw
A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The…
George Bernard Shaw
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence,…
George Bernard Shaw
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to…
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it…
George Bernard Shaw
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and…
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Washington
It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Bernard Shaw
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an…
George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.