Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Very few people can afford to be poor"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Until the men of action clear out the talkers, we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"One man that has a mind, and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven't and don't"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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, Dramatist

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"In a battle, all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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