George Bernard Shaw - Man Quotes

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

George Bernard Shaw
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

George Bernard Shaw
I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.

George Bernard Shaw
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Bernard Shaw
I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on [Charles] Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.

George Bernard Shaw
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

George Bernard Shaw
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

George Bernard Shaw
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

George Bernard Shaw
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

George Bernard Shaw
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

George Bernard Shaw
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

George Bernard Shaw