George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The quotations of
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist
1856–1950
99 quotes, most often on Love, Morality and Clever Jabs.
Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
- The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act V
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- Man and Superman (1903), Act I, p. 22; Tanner
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
In The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890-1894: Being Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World (New York: Vienna House, 1973)Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #25We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- Androcles and the Lion (1913), Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists, p. 239 Good IntentionsDancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Often credited to George Bernard Shaw
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