Men Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

— George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

— George Bernard Shaw

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

— George Bernard Shaw

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

— George Bernard Shaw

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

— George Bernard Shaw

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

— 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

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save…

— George Bernard Shaw

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and…

— George Bernard Shaw

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent…

— George Bernard Shaw

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they…

— George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends…

— George Bernard Shaw

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such…

— George Bernard Shaw

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of…

— George Bernard Shaw

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for…

— 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 have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning…

— George Bernard Shaw

I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving…

— George Bernard Shaw

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom…

— George Bernard Shaw

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

— George Bernard Shaw

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

— George Bernard Shaw

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

— George Bernard Shaw

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

— George Bernard Shaw