Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
- George Bernard Shaw
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
- George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
- George Bernard Shaw
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
- George Bernard Shaw
Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
- George Bernard Shaw
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
- George Bernard Shaw
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
- George Bernard Shaw
Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
- George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- George Bernard Shaw