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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

1856–1950 Ireland

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923).

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Also known as: Bernard Shaw, G. B. Shaw, G.B. Shaw, George bernhard shaw, Shaw, Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

Getting Married (1908)

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

Saint Joan (1923)

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who havnt and dont.

The Apple Cart (1928)

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

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The Philanderer (1893)

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

Misalliance (1910)

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

Pygmalion (1912)

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.

Pygmalion (1912)

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Annajanska (1919)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Man and Superman (1903)

My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God — nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

O'Flaherty V.C (1919)

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Man and Superman (1903)

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Major Barbara (1905)

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.