Inspiring Quotes by George Bernard Shaw - Page 2

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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same"

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it"

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"

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

"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"

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity"

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course"

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts"

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics"

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own"

"Syllables govern the world"

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"

"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth"

"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity"

"The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong"

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier"

"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office"

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it"

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will"

"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid"

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week"

"Better never than late"

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic"

"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him"

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship"

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing"

"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"

"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"

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage"

"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income"

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life"

"A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes"

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

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world"

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

"An index is a great leveller"

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven"

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out"

"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it"

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America"

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them"

"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it"

"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious"

"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics"

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does"

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

"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it"

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy"

"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist"

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