{"id":84099,"date":"2019-09-22T14:33:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2020-12-20T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:59:51","slug":"george-bernard-shaw-quotations-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/george-bernard-shaw-quotations-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"George Bernard Shaw Quotations (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"George<\/a>
George Bernard Shaw quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool’s brain digest philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

He who can does. He who cannot, teaches. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Alcohol is a very necessary article… It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

\"G.B.
G.B. Shaw Quotes on Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

All great truths begin as blasphemies.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

An index is a great leveller.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Better never than late.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

\"George
George Bernard Shaw famous quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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