George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

227 Famous Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”
Nature Quotes
“What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.”
Originality Quotes
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
Patriotism Quotes
“We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beasts Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites We never pause to wonder at our feasts If animals, like men, can possibly have rights We pray on Sundays that we may have light To guide our footsteps on the path we tread We're sick of war We do not want to fight The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat Regardless of the suffering and pain We cause by doing so. If thus we treat Defenseless animals for sport or gain How can we hope in this world to attain the PEACE we say we are so anxious for We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral law Thus cruelty begets its offspring: war.”
Peace Quotes
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.”
Perception Quotes
“The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.”
Population Quotes
“Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
Power Quotes
“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”
Question Quotes
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.”
Reputation Quotes
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
Revolution Quotes
“Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.”
Revolution Quotes
“I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.”
Self-improvement Quotes
“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”
Self-sacrifice Quotes
“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.”
Society Quotes
“What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”
Sports Quotes
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
Sports Quotes
“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
Success Quotes
“Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.”
Taste Quotes
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
Teaching Quotes
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
Teaching Quotes
“There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.”
Tragedy Quotes
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”
Travel Quotes
“People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.”
Value Quotes
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”
Virtue Quotes
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