George Bernard Shaw quotes · page 5

Skip to content

Advertisement 728 × 90

George Bernard Shaw

Feelings
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
3.6 · 58 votes · 164 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Virtues
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
3.2 · 46 votes · 134 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Government and Politics
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
3.1 · 57 votes · 152 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Society
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
4.1 · 59 votes · 57 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Defects
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
4.2 · 45 votes · 56 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Various
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
3.1 · 40 votes · 170 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Various
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
3.3 · 52 votes · 69 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Society
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
3.0 · 13 votes · 119 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Various
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
3.1 · 16 votes · 111 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Art and Culture
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
3.2 · 23 votes · 22 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Art and Culture
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
3.5 · 51 votes · 83 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Various
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
4.7 · 51 votes · 67 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Society
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
4.4 · 47 votes · 82 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Society
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.
3.7 · 46 votes · 195 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Society
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them
3.2 · 60 votes · 12 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Government and Politics
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
4.0 · 51 votes · 77 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Art and Culture
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
4.8 · 37 votes · 6 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Defects
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the sa
3.8 · 5 votes · 83 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Society
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
3.1 · 52 votes · 20 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Government and Politics
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
3.0 · 19 votes · 186 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Time
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
4.3 · 22 votes · 148 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Art and Culture
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
3.3 · 35 votes · 185 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Society
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
3.9 · 53 votes · 91 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Time
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
4.4 · 13 votes · 129 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X
Time
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
4.2 · 50 votes · 52 reads
Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on X

Page 5 of 5 · 185 quotes

What they wrote about