George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.

~ George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

~ George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

~ George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

~ George Bernard Shaw

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

~ George Bernard Shaw

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

~ George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

~ George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Morality is not respectability.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

~ George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

~ George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

~ George Bernard Shaw

He who can does. He who can't teaches.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

~ George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.

~ George Bernard Shaw