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George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist

1856–1950

99 quotes, most often on Love, Morality and Clever Jabs.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists, p. 239 Good Intentions
- Morality
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected.
- Morality
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
The Devil’s Disciple, Act II (1901)
- Good & Evil
- Morality
The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
Man and Superman (1903), p. 121
- Marriage
- Morality
I have to live for others and not for myself; that’s middle-class morality.
Pygmalion (1912), Act VIn context
- Morality
Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #1
- Comedy
- Morality
I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: that’s what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
Pygmalion (1912), Act II, spoken by DoolittleIn context
- Money
- Morality

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