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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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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw

Liar, Believe, Punishment

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw

Hate, Sin, Worst

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

Funny, Life, Laugh

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, Enough, Everything

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism, World, You

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

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Good, Enough

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

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. George Bernard Shaw

Legal, Socialism, Property

All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

Truth, Great, Begin

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. - George Bernard Shaw

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. George Bernard Shaw

Enjoy, Illness, Part

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, Opinions

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

Silence, Men, You

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw

Censorship, Assassination

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

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw

Man, Religion, Bible

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

People, Pray, Most

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. George Bernard Shaw

Children, Best, Honesty

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. George Bernard Shaw

Time, Society, Poverty

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, Do Unto Others

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw

History, Man, Learn

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

Censorship, Nobody, Ends

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, Always

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

Fitness, Children, Parenting

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, Man, Mistake

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