George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw

Good, Working, Hell

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Forward, Made

Better never than late.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Temptation, Popular

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw

Once, Act, Decide

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

Happiness, Wealth, Consume

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.
George Bernard Shaw

Young, Soldier, Old

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Dreams, Children, Wonderful

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw

Him, Until, Contradict

An index is a great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw

Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw

May, Believes, Acts

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw

Hero, Cannot, Coward

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

Censorship, Extreme

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Art, Lost

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing, Conscience, Dangerous

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw

Art, Soul, Face

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing, May, Serious

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Beauty, Truth

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Until, Social

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

Him, Wants, Tiger

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw

Difficult, Question, Answer

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Women, Constancy

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26, 1856

Died: November 2, 1950

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