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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist · 259 quotes
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“Property is organized robbery.”
Property
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
Age and Aging
“All progress means war with society.”
Progress
“I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.”
Atheism
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
Money
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
Truth
“My reputation grew with every failure.”
Reputation
“Success covers a multitude of blunders.”
Success
“Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.”
Work
“The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.”
Indifference
“He who has never hoped can never despair.”
Hope
“Common people do not pray; they only beg.”
Prayer
“In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.”
Angels
“All problems are finally scientific problems.”
Problems
“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”
Death and Dying
“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.”
Amusement
“Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.”
Youth
“We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?”
Churches
“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”
Assassination
“Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.”
Fashion
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
Food and Eating
“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”
Silence
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
Sanity
“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”
Prison
“Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.”
Reasonableness