Top 500 George Bernard Shaw Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

102. “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

103. “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.”

— George Bernard Shaw

104. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

— George Bernard Shaw

105. “I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

— George Bernard Shaw

106. “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

107. “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.”

— George Bernard Shaw

108. “What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.”

— George Bernard Shaw

109. “I never expect a soldier to think.”

— George Bernard Shaw

110. “The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.”

— George Bernard Shaw

111. “Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.”

— George Bernard Shaw

112. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

113. “Morality is not respectability.”

— George Bernard Shaw

114. “One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

115. “A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

116. “Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.”

— George Bernard Shaw

117. “Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”

— George Bernard Shaw

118. “If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

— George Bernard Shaw

119. “Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.”

— George Bernard Shaw

120. “Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”

— George Bernard Shaw

121. “As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.”

— George Bernard Shaw

122. “Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”

— George Bernard Shaw

123. “Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

— George Bernard Shaw

124. “Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

125. “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

— George Bernard Shaw

126. “God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.”

— George Bernard Shaw

127. “Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

— George Bernard Shaw

128. “Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.”

— George Bernard Shaw

129. “Activity is the only road to knowledge.”

— George Bernard Shaw

130. “Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”

— George Bernard Shaw

131. “When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

— George Bernard Shaw

132. “We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.”

— George Bernard Shaw

133. “Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.”

— George Bernard Shaw

134. “I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.”

— George Bernard Shaw

135. “Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.”

— George Bernard Shaw

136. “The person I miss most is the one I could have been.”

— George Bernard Shaw

137. “The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

— George Bernard Shaw

138. “It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”

— George Bernard Shaw

139. “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

— George Bernard Shaw

140. “The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.”

— George Bernard Shaw

141. “A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.”

— George Bernard Shaw

142. “I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.”

— George Bernard Shaw

143. “I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

— George Bernard Shaw

144. “The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.”

— George Bernard Shaw

145. “We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!”

— George Bernard Shaw

146. “Don’t lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.”

— George Bernard Shaw

147. “Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.”

— George Bernard Shaw

148. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

— George Bernard Shaw

149. “God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.”

— George Bernard Shaw

150. “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

— George Bernard Shaw