World Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Syllables govern the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

Money is a most important thing in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

— George Bernard Shaw

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

— George Bernard Shaw

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best…

— George Bernard Shaw

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a…

— George Bernard Shaw

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is…

— George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

— George Bernard Shaw

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too…

— George Bernard Shaw

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself…

— George Bernard Shaw

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this…

— George Bernard Shaw

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of…

— George Bernard Shaw

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world.…

— George Bernard Shaw

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel…

— George Bernard Shaw

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths…

— George Bernard Shaw

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as…

— George Bernard Shaw

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve…

— George Bernard Shaw

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,…

— George Bernard Shaw

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than…

— George Bernard Shaw

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle…

— George Bernard Shaw

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There…

— George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force…

— George Bernard Shaw

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

— George Bernard Shaw

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

— George Bernard Shaw

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

— George Bernard Shaw

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

— George Bernard Shaw

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

— George Bernard Shaw