George Bernard Shaw Quotes


402 George Bernard Shaw quotes:



"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Business Quotes Gossip Quotes
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Funny Quotes Cynics And Cynicism Quotes
"Common people do not pray; they only beg."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Prayer Quotes
"There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Human Nature Quotes
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Women Quotes Appearance Quotes
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap"
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"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."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Voting Quotes
"Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''"
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Vision Quotes
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes



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