George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, World Quotes

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , People Quotes , World Quotes

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Literature Quotes

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Desire Quotes , Want Quotes

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Women Quotes , Divorce Quotes

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Struggle Quotes

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Boxing Quotes , World Quotes

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Dragons Quotes

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , World Quotes , Statistics Quotes

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hell Quotes , Intention Quotes

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Boss Quotes

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Work Quotes , Drinking Quotes

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , America Quotes , World Quotes

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Faith Quotes

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Judging Quotes

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Power Quotes , Men Quotes

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Making Money Quotes

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes