These are our collection of our favorite George Bernard Shaw Quotes and inspirational sayings.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
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.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven’t got it.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
~ This is one of the funniest quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don’t like beer.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
~George Bernard Shaw
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
We don’t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don’t dress well and we’ve no manners.
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Property is organized robbery.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
~George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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