Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
— George Bernard Shaw
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
— George Bernard Shaw
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
— George Bernard Shaw
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
— George Bernard Shaw
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
— George Bernard Shaw
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
— George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw