Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
- George Bernard Shaw
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
- George Bernard Shaw
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
- George Bernard Shaw
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
- George Bernard Shaw
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
- George Bernard Shaw
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
- George Bernard Shaw