George Bernard Shaw quotes

“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Syllables govern the world.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.”

— George Bernard Shaw