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Famouse George Bernard Shaw Quotes
An Irish playwright with one of the great talents for words in the history of English, Shaw is often quoted and his lessons taught and retaught down through the ages.
You may be most familiar with his play Pygmalion, which the successful film and musical My Fair Lady is based on.
Here’s a good sampling of the most famous George Bernard Shaw quotes.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Very few people can afford to be poor.
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
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard Shaw
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Better never than late.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw
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GB Shaw rocks. You can read almost all of his stuff here: http://www.wepapers.com/navigate/60/Theater_Literature_and_History