George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 3

Irish - Dramatist July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950 Read full biography

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

George Bernard Shaw

You Others Expect May

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Yourself Man Forgiveness You

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

Happiness Great Greatness Done Just

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence Men You Choose

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

Heart Man Broken Broken Heart

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

George Bernard Shaw

Nobody Censorship Books Logical

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

George Bernard Shaw

Life Us Miracles Miracle

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

Great Truth Begin Truths

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw

World Wrong Nothing Us

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

Rules Golden Rule Golden Rule

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

George Bernard Shaw

People Sometimes More Become

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

Angel Nobody Heaven Particular

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 Desire Your

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

Moment People You Will

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

People Sacrifice Without Us

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

George Bernard Shaw

Faults Qualities Burglar Financier

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw

Children Yourself You Your

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

George Bernard Shaw

Man You Never Anything

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

Age Youth Young Wasted

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

George Bernard Shaw

Man Assumptions May He

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

George Bernard Shaw

Think Always Said Things

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw

Pain Years Existence Our

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge Hot Fight You

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

Man Self-Respect Difficult Doing

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Soul Election Battle Bad

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

Sex Advice Why Anything

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