Famous Quotes / George Bernard Shaw
395 Quotations by George Bernard Shaw
- 21. A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
- 22. A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceiv ...
- 23. A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavo ...
- 24. A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there ar ...
- 25. A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
- 26. A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- 27. A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
- 28. A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- 29. A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting ...
- 30. Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not en ...
- 31. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
- 32. All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutio ...
- 33. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- 34. All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken ...
- 35. All problems are finally scientific problems.
- 36. All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
- 37. All progress means war with society.
- 38. All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-maker ...
- 39. Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
- 40. An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.