George Bernard Shaw Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old George Bernard Shaw quotes, George Bernard Shaw sayings, and George Bernard Shaw proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

There is no sincerer love than the love of ice cream. George Bernard Shaw
It is really an atrocious institution. We must be gluttonous because it is Christmas. We must be drunken because it is Christmas. . . . We must buy things that nobody wants and give them to people we don't like; because the mass of the population, including the all-powerful middle-class tradesman, depends on a week of license and brigandage, waste and intemperance, to clear off its outstanding liabilities at the end of the year. George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing; age, which forgives itself everything. is forgiven nothing. George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. George Bernard Shaw
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. George Bernard Shaw
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. George Bernard Shaw
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw
Life was not meant to be easy, my child. But take courage, it can be delightful. George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. George Bernard Shaw
It is easy — terribly easy — to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man’s spirit is devil's work. George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport. When a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents’ first duty. George Bernard Shaw