183 Quotes By George Bernard Shaw


It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw on love

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw on love

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw on love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw on love

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw on love

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw on marriage

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw on marriage

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw on marriage

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw on marriage

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw on men

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw on men

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw on men

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw on men

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw on men

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw on men

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw on men

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw on men

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw on men

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw on men

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw on men