George Bernard Shaw Quotes

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard Shaw

Neighbour, Halves, Injure

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
George Bernard Shaw

Good, Dead, Picture

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw

Hard, Wishes, Earnestly

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Tolerable, Amusements

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Experience, Wise

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes, Become, Attached

Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Govern, Syllables

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw

Art, Government, Idolatry

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw

War, Soldier, Stand

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

Eyes, Cannot, Dead

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw

Human, Natural, Animal

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw

Truth, Enough, Energy

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Thought, Dangerous

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard Shaw

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw

Married, Virtue, Trade

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
George Bernard Shaw

Money, Says, Hasn

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw

Living, While, Earth

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.
George Bernard Shaw

Why, Whole, Means

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Fear, Live

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26, 1856

Died: November 2, 1950

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