Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
- George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- George Bernard Shaw
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
- George Bernard Shaw
To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
- George Bernard Shaw