George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Self, Belief

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Why, Liberty

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw

Parenting, Fitness, Children

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw

Desire, Expression, Dancing

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning, Dangerous, Risk

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

Failure, Him, Son

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Enough, Miserable

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

Read, Books, Nobody

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing, Fashion, Epidemic

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw

Silence, Perfect, Expression

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Age, Forty, Scoundrel

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy, Few, Election

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

Last, Desire, Beginning

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

Music, Hell, Full

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw

God, Atheist, Thank

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Great, Home

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw

Two, America, Same

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Health, Happy, Give

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage, Thought, Lion

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard Shaw

Keep, Themselves, Secrets

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Two

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Rich, Same

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

Down, Find, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26, 1856

Died: November 2, 1950

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