George Bernard Shaw quotes

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

— 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

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”

— George Bernard Shaw