George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 3

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

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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

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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

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My reputation grows with every failure.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after.
– George Bernard Shaw

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
– George Bernard Shaw

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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

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
– George Bernard Shaw

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
– George Bernard Shaw

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
– George Bernard Shaw

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A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Martyrdom… is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
– George Bernard Shaw

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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Heartbreak is life educating us.
– George Bernard Shaw

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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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