99+ George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Life, Books and Back to Methuselah - Quotes.pub

Here you will find all the famous George Bernard Shaw quotes. There are more than 99+ quotes in our George Bernard Shaw quotes collection. We have collected all of them and made stunning George Bernard Shaw wallpapers & posters out of those quotes. You can use this wallpapers & posters on mobile, desktop, print and frame them or share them on the various social media platforms. You can download the quotes images in various different sizes for free. In the below list you can find quotes in various categories like Life, Books and Back to Methuselah

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

Altogether too many sheep.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don’t need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another.

I don’t. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Property is organized robbery.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

People exaggerate the value of things they haven’t got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

A great social reformer.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I love little children too but I don’t cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

Fun Quotes

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

I have studied him – the wonderful man – and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

1
2
3
4
5