George Bernard Shaw quotes

“Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Very few people can afford to be poor.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Virtue is insufficient temptation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“General consultant to mankind.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.”

— George Bernard Shaw