Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
— George Bernard Shaw
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
— George Bernard Shaw
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
— George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
— George Bernard Shaw
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
— George Bernard Shaw
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
— George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
— George Bernard Shaw
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
— George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
— George Bernard Shaw
As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man
— George Bernard Shaw