Top 500 George Bernard Shaw Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

402. “Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.”

— George Bernard Shaw

403. “Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.”

— George Bernard Shaw

404. “We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

405. “I can’t turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”

— George Bernard Shaw

406. “My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I’m a free citizen.”

— George Bernard Shaw

407. “Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...”

— George Bernard Shaw

408. “I have studied him – the wonderful man – and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

409. “Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.”

— George Bernard Shaw

410. “Golf is typical capitalist luncay.”

— George Bernard Shaw

411. “There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.”

— George Bernard Shaw

412. “Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another.”

— George Bernard Shaw

413. “The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”

— George Bernard Shaw

414. “Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.”

— George Bernard Shaw

415. “To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.”

— George Bernard Shaw

416. “Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.”

— George Bernard Shaw

417. “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.”

— George Bernard Shaw

418. “Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?”

— George Bernard Shaw

419. “The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

— George Bernard Shaw

420. “You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.”

— George Bernard Shaw

421. “In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.”

— George Bernard Shaw

422. “Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.”

— George Bernard Shaw

423. “Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”

— George Bernard Shaw

424. “A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.”

— George Bernard Shaw

425. “The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.”

— George Bernard Shaw

426. “A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

— George Bernard Shaw

427. “It’s prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don’t forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.”

— George Bernard Shaw

428. “A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”

— George Bernard Shaw

429. “A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.”

— George Bernard Shaw

430. “Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.”

— George Bernard Shaw

431. “Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.”

— George Bernard Shaw

432. “What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.”

— George Bernard Shaw

433. “Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”

— George Bernard Shaw

434. “Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.”

— George Bernard Shaw

435. “Property is organized robbery.”

— George Bernard Shaw

436. “Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.”

— George Bernard Shaw

437. “We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.”

— George Bernard Shaw

438. “Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.”

— George Bernard Shaw

439. “No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.”

— George Bernard Shaw

440. “Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.”

— George Bernard Shaw

441. “Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.”

— George Bernard Shaw

442. “Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.”

— George Bernard Shaw

443. “A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.”

— George Bernard Shaw

444. “If ‘Pygmalion’ is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.”

— George Bernard Shaw

445. “When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.”

— George Bernard Shaw

446. “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.”

— George Bernard Shaw

447. “If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

448. “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 part.”

— George Bernard Shaw

449. “Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.”

— George Bernard Shaw

450. “Affection between adults – if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children – and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.”

— George Bernard Shaw