George Bernard Shaw Quotes And Sayings

The Love Of Economy Is The Root Of All Virtue.

In This World There Is Always Danger For Those Who Are Afraid Of It.

The Secret Of Being Miserable Is To Have Leisure To Bother About Whether You Are Happy Or Not. The Cure For It Is Occupation.

Youth Is Wasted On The Young.

If You Leave The Smallest Corner Of Your Head Vacant For A Moment, Other People's Opinions Will Rush In From All Quarters.

The Moment We Want To Believe Something, We Suddenly See All The Arguments For It, And Become Blind To The Arguments Against It.

Parentage Is A Very Important Profession, But No Test Of Fitness For It Is Ever Imposed In The Interest Of The Children.

An Election Is A Moral Horror, As Bad As A Battle Except For The Blood; A Mud Bath For Every Soul Concerned In It.

Peace Is Not Only Better Than War, But Infinitely More Arduous.

A Man Never Tells You Anything Until You Contradict Him.

Man Can Climb To The Highest Summits, But He Cannot Dwell There Long.

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.

The Natural Term Of The Affection Of The Human Animal For Its Offspring Is Six Years.

Better Never Than Late.

Human Beings Are The Only Animals Of Which I Am Thoroughly And Cravenly Afraid.

The Frontier Between Hell And Heaven Is Only The Difference Between Two Ways Of Looking At Things.

While We Ourselves Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Animals, How Can We Expect Any Ideal Living Conditions On This Earth?

When A Man Wants To Murder A Tiger He Calls It Sport; When A Tiger Wants To Murder Him He Calls It Ferocity.

One Man That Has A Mind And Knows It Can Always Beat Ten Men Who Haven't And Don't.

A Veteran Journalist Has Never Had Time To Think Twice Before He Writes.

I Am A Christian. That Obliges Me To Be A Communist.

Virtue Consists, Not In Abstaining From Vice, But In Not Desiring It.

The Faults Of The Burglar Are The Qualities Of The Financier.

It's Easier To Replace A Dead Man Than A Good Picture.

Never Fret For An Only Son, The Idea Of Failure Will Never Occur To Him.

Youth Is A Wonderful Thing. What A Crime To Waste It On Children.

All My Life Affection Has Been Showered Upon Me, And Every Forward Step I Have Made Has Been Taken In Spite Of It.

We Don't Stop Playing Because We Grow Old; We Grow Old Because We Stop Playing.

An Englishman Thinks He Is Moral When He Is Only Uncomfortable.

In Heaven An Angel Is Nobody In Particular.

There Is No Satisfaction In Hanging A Man Who Does Not Object To It.

Dancing Is A Perpendicular Expression Of A Horizontal Desire.

Very Few People Can Afford To Be Poor.

Hell Is Full Of Musical Amateurs.

The Minority Is Sometimes Right; The Majority Always Wrong.

The Art Of Government Is The Organisation Of Idolatry.

Do Not Try To Live Forever. You Will Not Succeed.

I Want To Be All Used Up When I Die.

There Are Two Tragedies In Life. One Is To Lose Your Heart's Desire. The Other Is To Gain It.

We Are All Dependent On One Another, Every Soul Of Us On Earth.

Nothing Is Ever Done In This World Until Men Are Prepared To Kill One Another If It Is Not Done.

Give A Man Health And A Course To Steer, And He'll Never Stop To Trouble About Whether He's Happy Or Not.

A Perpetual Holiday Is A Good Working Definition Of Hell.

Property Is Organized Robbery.

My Reputation Grows With Every Failure.

The Fickleness Of The Women I Love Is Only Equalled By The Infernal Constancy Of The Women Who Love Me.

Take Care To Get What You Like Or You Will Be Forced To Like What You Get.

We Should All Be Obliged To Appear Before A Board Every Five Years And Justify Our Existence... On Pain Of Liquidation.

Kings Are Not Born: They Are Made By Artificial Hallucination.

There Is Nothing More Dangerous Than The Conscience Of A Bigot.