Famous Quotes / George Bernard Shaw
395 Quotations by George Bernard Shaw
- 301. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- 302. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the ...
- 303. The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
- 304. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The c ...
- 305. The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
- 306. The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing ...
- 307. The sound body is the product of the sound mind
- 308. The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
- 309. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
- 310. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- 311. The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most import ...
- 312. The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
- 313. The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's ...
- 314. The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that' ...
- 315. The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
- 316. There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ...
- 317. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
- 318. There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will ...
- 319. There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them ...
- 320. There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.