George Bernard Shaw Quotes

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
-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

"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - it can be delightful."
-George Bernard Shaw

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
-George Bernard Shaw in Stupidity quotes.

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
-George Bernard Shaw

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."
-George Bernard Shaw

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
-George Bernard Shaw in Teaching quotes.

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
-George Bernard Shaw

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
-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

"Hell is to drift; heaven is to steer."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
-George Bernard Shaw

"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
-George Bernard Shaw in Patriotism quotes.

"Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The 100% American is 99% an idiot."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
-George Bernard Shaw

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
-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 in History quotes.

"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people."
-George Bernard Shaw

"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-George Bernard Shaw in Belief quotes.