Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

Top 28 Best Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

1. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

2. War does not decide who is right but who is left.

3. Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.

4. Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

5. A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

6. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

7. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

8. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

9. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

10. Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

11. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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

13. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

14. The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

15. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

16. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

17. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

18. You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

19. Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

20. A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

21. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

22. You see things; you say, ’Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ’Why not?

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

24. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

25. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

26. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

27. The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

28. The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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

30. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

31. A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

32. Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

33. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

34. I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

35. A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

36. What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

37. Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

38. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

39. Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

40. A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.