Top 232 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

About George Bernard Shaw

These are some quotes by Irish author George Bernard Shaw Dramatist, who lived between July 26, 1856 and November 2, 1950.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

George Bernard Shaw

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

George Bernard Shaw

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

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