George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 3

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

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, Cannot, He

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present. George Bernard Shaw

Socialism, Capitalism, Present, Free

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, Always, He, Ever

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism, Born, You, Country, Others

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

People, World, Look, Want, Circumstances

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

Conscience, Nothing, Dangerous, More

The love of economy is the root of all virtue. - George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw

Love, Virtue, Economy, Root

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, Read

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

God, Thank God, Atheist, Thank

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

Socialism, Legal, Division, Expression

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

World, Wrong, Nothing, Us, Anything

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. George Bernard Shaw

Food, Habit, Survive, Eating, Statistics

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, Imperfections

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, Opinions, Head

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, Man, Happy, Trouble, Never Stop

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw

Soul, Independence, Earth, Class, Middle

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

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

Cannot, He, Who, Does, Teaches

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Home, More, Cage, Natural, Us

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes, Wrong, Right, Minority

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, Because, Hold

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

Advice, Sex, Why, Anything, Take, He

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. George Bernard Shaw

Good, Courage, Great, Man, Moral, Taste

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, Acts, His

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. George Bernard Shaw

Hurt, Find, Cruelty, Only, Delicious

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

Men, World, Matter, Dangerous, Old, Them

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! George Bernard Shaw

Future, Personality, Me, Personal, Big

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