Quotes
Quotes - Shaw
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the richâ something for nothing.
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw.
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
