List of George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 1348 inspiring quotes by George Bernard Shaw.

About George Bernard Shaw

  • Born: July 26, 1856
  • Died: November 2, 1950
  • Occupation: Playwright
    • It would positively be a relief to me to dig shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
    Writing Relief Stones
    You can rave about stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
    Risk Generations Next
    The poor silly-clever irishman takes off his hat to god's englishman.
    Clever Silly Hats
    Don't ask me for promises until i know what i am promising.
    Promise Ask Me Knows
    Even a vortex is a vortex in something. you can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
    Ions Water Molecules
    When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "orthodoxy, true and false" and demonstrates that the true is his heresy.
    Wish True And False Orthodoxy
    In the arts of peace man is a bungler.
    Art Peace Men
    I am very subtle; but man is deeper in his thought than i am. the woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. i do well to worship them.
    Men Tomorrow Worship
    The english have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. they spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.it isimpossible foran englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other englishman hate or despise him.
    Children Hate Men
    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.
    Liars Believe Punishment
    Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
    Husband Thinking Want
    A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
    Fun Boys Ordinary
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