George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw

Profession : Playwright

Birth : July 26, 1856

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

George Bernard Shaw

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

George Bernard Shaw

My reputation grows with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

George Bernard Shaw

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

George Bernard Shaw

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

George Bernard Shaw