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.'

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man 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
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. George Bernard Shaw
I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady. George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. George Bernard Shaw
Revolution's have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it o another shoulder. 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
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe because there is intention and purpose in us. George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw
During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman. George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow; he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. George Bernard Shaw
I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw
Just put them there and say, sir or madam, will you be kind enough to justify your existence. George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. 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
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned; nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw