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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish-English writer and critic

Lived from: 1856 - 1950

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950

  • Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
  • Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
  • How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
  • The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
  • Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
  • Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
  • He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
  • Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
  • Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
  • I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
  • You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and believe anything.
  • A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
  • It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
  • All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
  • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
  • Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
  • Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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  • Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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  • The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
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  • When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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  • A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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  • All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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  • Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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  • Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
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  • If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
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  • It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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  • Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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  • Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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  • Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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  • Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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  • Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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  • Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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  • Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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  • Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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  • Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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  • Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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What are the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw?

The two most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw are:

  • "Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
  • "The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom."

When did George Bernard Shaw live?

George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 and died in the year 1950.