Quotes

“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” George Bernard Shaw

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” George Bernard Shaw

“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.” George Bernard Shaw

“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.” George Bernard Shaw

“The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.” George Bernard Shaw

“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.” George Bernard Shaw

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.” George Bernard Shaw

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.” George Bernard Shaw

“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.” George Bernard Shaw

“Very few people can afford to be poor.” George Bernard Shaw

“Virtue is insufficient temptation.” George Bernard Shaw

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.” George Bernard Shaw

“We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.” George Bernard Shaw

“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” George Bernard Shaw

“Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.” George Bernard Shaw

“Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.” George Bernard Shaw

“General consultant to mankind.” George Bernard Shaw

“If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.” George Bernard Shaw

“It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.” George Bernard Shaw

“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.” George Bernard Shaw

“Syllables govern the world.” George Bernard Shaw

“The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.” George Bernard Shaw

“The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.” George Bernard Shaw

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

“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.” George Bernard Shaw

“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?” George Bernard Shaw

“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.” 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.” George Bernard Shaw

“You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.” George Bernard Shaw

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” Harvey Fierstein