George Bernard Shaw Short Quotes

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

George Bernard Shaw
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains.

George Bernard Shaw
All Americans are blind and deaf – and dumb.

George Bernard Shaw
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

George Bernard Shaw
Youth is too precious to be wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw
Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.

George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

George Bernard Shaw
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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

George Bernard Shaw
The Devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purposes.

George Bernard Shaw
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

George Bernard Shaw
Why should you call me to account for eating decently?

George Bernard Shaw
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!

George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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

George Bernard Shaw
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

George Bernard Shaw
I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

George Bernard Shaw
Just as men imitate each other, germs imitate each other.

George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

George Bernard Shaw
I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

George Bernard Shaw
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

George Bernard Shaw
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

George Bernard Shaw
Oh, you are a very poor soldier—a chocolate cream soldier!

George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.

George Bernard Shaw
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

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