Famous Quotes / George Bernard Shaw
395 Quotations by George Bernard Shaw
- 261. Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they c ...
- 262. Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke i ...
- 263. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
- 264. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any ...
- 265. The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
- 266. The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced ...
- 267. The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; th ...
- 268. The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
- 269. The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure witho ...
- 270. The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
- 271. The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and ...
- 272. The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believ ...
- 273. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- 274. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drun ...
- 275. The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
- 276. The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who ...
- 277. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- 278. The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other c ...
- 279. The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the m ...
- 280. The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.