George Bernard Shaw Quotes

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Youth is wasted on the young.
An index is a great leveller.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Dramatist
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26 July, 1856
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02 November, 1950
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Ireland
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