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.'

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw
Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've 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
Ive been a surgeon and a consultant for twenty years; and Ive never known a general practitioner right in his diagnosis yet. Bring them a perfectly simple case. George Bernard Shaw
Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? . . . . Manual labour. George Bernard Shaw
I have my own opinion, do not confuse it with the facts. George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them to do. George Bernard Shaw
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself. George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy-the being used for the purpose recognized as a mighty one. George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw
In art, as in politics, there is no such thing as gratitude. George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. George Bernard Shaw
I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. George Bernard Shaw
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile. George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. George Bernard Shaw
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
Midway between youth and age like a man who has missed his train; too late for the last and too early for the next. George Bernard Shaw
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. George Bernard Shaw
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. 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
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw
Whisky is liquid sunshine. George Bernard Shaw