Character Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

Morality is not respectability.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

— George Bernard Shaw

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

— George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

— George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

— George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

— George Bernard Shaw

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on…

— George Bernard Shaw

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

— George Bernard Shaw

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

— George Bernard Shaw

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

— George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

— George Bernard Shaw

“You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin…

— George Bernard Shaw

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

— George Bernard Shaw

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's…

— George Bernard Shaw

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated…

— George Bernard Shaw

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull…

— George Bernard Shaw

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be…

— George Bernard Shaw

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's…

— George Bernard Shaw

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

— George Bernard Shaw

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

— George Bernard Shaw

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

— George Bernard Shaw

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

— George Bernard Shaw

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

— George Bernard Shaw

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

— George Bernard Shaw

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

— George Bernard Shaw

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

— George Bernard Shaw

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them

— George Bernard Shaw