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An Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
Here are some famous quotes by George Bernard Shaw.
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I work as my father drank.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Morality is not respectability.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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He who can does. He who can't teaches.
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All great truths began as blasphemies.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
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I know of only one duty and that is to love.
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Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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When we know what God is we shall be gods ourselves.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
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Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
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Hell is paved with good intentions not with bad ones. All men mean well.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
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Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.
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A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
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It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
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If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it he shouldn't!
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He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not.
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
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The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past but by the responsibility for our future.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
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Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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Fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
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It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
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The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The moment we want to believe something we suddenly see all the arguments for it and become blind to the arguments against it.
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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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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.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
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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.
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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.
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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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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.
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
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This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
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A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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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 expect me to fit them.
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My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
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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 and famine.
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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.
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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 happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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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 burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
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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 scandalize one's uncles.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
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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 idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas then each of us will have two ideas.
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
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This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins he reflected.
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This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances.
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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.