Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. – George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts to the world, the unreasonable man makes the world adapt to him. Therefore progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw
My reputation grows with every failure. – George Bernard Shaw
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. – George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. – George Bernard Shaw
Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after. – George Bernard Shaw
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. – George Bernard Shaw
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. – George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell. – George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. – George Bernard Shaw
Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. – George Bernard Shaw
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. – George Bernard Shaw
A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. – George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom… is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. – George Bernard Shaw
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak is life educating us. – George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. – George Bernard Shaw
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