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.'

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. George Bernard Shaw
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw
If you injure your neighbor, better not do it by halves. George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol...enables parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. George Bernard Shaw
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
The roulette table pays nobody / except him that keeps it./ Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, / though a passion / for keeping roulette tables is unknown. George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again everytime a child is born. George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw
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. George Bernard Shaw
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. George Bernard Shaw
Hinduism is so elastic and subtle that the most profound Methodist and crudest Idolator are equally at home with it. George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again everytime a child is born. George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity. 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
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy-the being used for the purpose recognized as a mighty one. George Bernard Shaw
The Family is a petty despotism; . . . a school in which men learn to despise women and women to mistrust men (much more than is necessary); a slaughterhouse for children (the firstborn succumbing to unskilled treatment, the lastborn to neglect) . . . Unfortunately, we cannot as yet do without it; and therefore we put a good face on the matter by conferring upon it the conventional attribute of sacredness, and impudently proclaiming it the source of all the virtues it has well-nigh killed in us. George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. George Bernard Shaw