Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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

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  • The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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  • The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
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  • The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
    A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
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  • The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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  • The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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  • 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.
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  • The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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  • The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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  • The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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  • The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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  • The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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  • The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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  • The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
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  • The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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  • The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
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  • The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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  • The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
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  • The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
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  • There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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  • There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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