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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Language and Opinions
Tagged: World, Salvation, save, Evil, Good, humor, Laughter, Destroy, Fool, encourage, Men, Nature, Reaction, Emotion
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman: "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Tagged: Education, Understanding, Comprehension, Teaching, Thinking, Learning
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Untitled
Tagged: Ignorance
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Power and Illusion: Religion and Human Need
Tagged: one, Religion, versions, different, Belief, God, divine
“But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Wikiquote.org: George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: public, Man, Believe, Belief, Bible, say, Convince, Reason, Hope, Exception, rule
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Plays by George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Consume, Happiness, Happy, Emotion, Feeling, prducing, Wealth, Right, personal, Entitlement
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Wikiquote.org: George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Right, Elderly, entitle, Work, young, Age, Life, Living, author, Writing, self, personal, Person, Awareness, self awareness
“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Never Stop Laughing!
Tagged: Method, trouble, Right, Speak, say, levity
“The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Plays Unpleasant
Tagged: Fickle, fickleness, Women, Love, qual, infernal, Constant, Relationship, Emotion
“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Bother, dress, Manners, attire, Clothes, nation, Belief, Custom, Culture, England, english, british
“I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.”
— George Bernard Shaw, The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Success, Succeed, Achieve, Provoke, Uproar, Sensation, agree, agreeable, Try, perseverance
“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Endure Greatest Quotes
Tagged: Drinking, Living, liquor
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
Tagged: Creative, Mirrors, Art, Souls
“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: specialty, Right, Wrong, People, Relationships, personal
“Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Wikiquote.org: George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Liar, punishment, Believe, guilty, Society, Persuade, Persuasion, innocent, Innocence, act
“Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Wikiquote.org: George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Socialists, aristocratic, aristocrat, Government, dictator, Men, Job, Power, force, character, Personality, Awareness, Politics, politician
“Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?”
— George Bernard Shaw, Shaw: Interviews and Recollections
Tagged: why, Reason, account, eating, Health, Decent, Corpse, Animals, Meat, inhuman, human, Humane, Horror, Slaughter
“In the case of a work which is a mere exhibition of skill in conventional art, there may be some excuse for the delusion that the longer the artist works on it the nearer he will bring it to perfection. Yet even the victims of this delusion must see that there is an age limit to the process, and that though a man of forty-five may improve the workmanship of a man of thirty-five, it does not follow that a man of fifty-five can do the same.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Wikiquote.org: George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Work, exhibition, skill, conventional, Art, traditional, Artist, execution, Perfection, Delusion, age limit, process, Improvement, workmanship, improve, Age
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