Explore Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.