May Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

— George Bernard Shaw

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

— George Bernard Shaw

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

— George Bernard Shaw

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

— George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great…

— George Bernard Shaw

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

— George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people…

— George Bernard Shaw

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

— George Bernard Shaw

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There…

— George Bernard Shaw

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both…

— George Bernard Shaw

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your…

— George Bernard Shaw

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he…

— George Bernard Shaw

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty…

— George Bernard Shaw

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but…

— George Bernard Shaw

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious,…

— George Bernard Shaw

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical…

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for…

— George Bernard Shaw

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce…

— 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

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other…

— George Bernard Shaw

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal…

— George Bernard Shaw

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is…

— George Bernard Shaw

In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed…

— George Bernard Shaw

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like…

— George Bernard Shaw

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

— George Bernard Shaw

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top…

— George Bernard Shaw

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no…

— George Bernard Shaw

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

— George Bernard Shaw

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and…

— George Bernard Shaw

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex,…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be,…

— George Bernard Shaw

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but…

— George Bernard Shaw

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen…

— George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will…

— George Bernard Shaw

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the…

— George Bernard Shaw