George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

227 Famous Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.”
Cricket Quotes
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
Death and dying Quotes
“Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world”
Elderly Quotes
“All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.”
Evolution Quotes
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
Example Quotes
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.”
Fighting Quotes
“Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then”
First love Quotes
“Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants”
Food Quotes
“In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win”
Gambling Quotes
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.”
Generations Quotes
“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
Genius Quotes
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
Glory Quotes
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
Government Quotes
“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.”
Greatness Quotes
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor”
Honor Quotes
“You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world”
Honor Quotes
“In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.”
Hospitals Quotes
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
Imagination Quotes
“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes”
Judgement Quotes
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Knowledge Quotes
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
Liberty Quotes
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization”
Newspapers Quotes
“Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.”
Orchestras Quotes
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
Patriotism Quotes