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George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 3

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

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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, Said, Things

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. George Bernard Shaw

I Am, Me, Christian

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. George Bernard Shaw

Enough, Vitality, Instincts

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. George Bernard Shaw

Qualities, Faults, Burglar

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw

Finance, End, Reach

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. George Bernard Shaw

America, Empty, Asylum

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

You, Same, Expect

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. - George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw

Cannot, Who, Does

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

Censorship, Nobody, Logical

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. George Bernard Shaw

Angel, Heaven, Nobody

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. George Bernard Shaw

Man, Woman, Test

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

World, People, Want

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, Battle, Election

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

Forgiveness, Man, Yourself

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. George Bernard Shaw

I Am, Human, Afraid

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. George Bernard Shaw

World, Men, Happen

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

Marriage, Opportunity

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

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy. George Bernard Shaw

Sympathy, Movement, Many

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. - George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw

Time, Everything, Enough

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw

Man, Fact, Sober

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw

Family, Service, Greatest

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

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

Dreams, Children, Youth

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. George Bernard Shaw

Health, Yourself, Die

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. - George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw

Censorship, Form, Extreme

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Child, Want

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