People Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

— George Bernard Shaw

Youth is just wasted on young people.

— George Bernard Shaw

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

— George Bernard Shaw

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

— George Bernard Shaw

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

— George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can afford to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

— George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

— George Bernard Shaw

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

— George Bernard Shaw

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

— George Bernard Shaw

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and…

— George Bernard Shaw

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

— George Bernard Shaw

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

— George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

— 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

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised…

— 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

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,…

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are.…

— George Bernard Shaw

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable…

— George Bernard Shaw

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us…

— George Bernard Shaw

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and…

— George Bernard Shaw

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person…

— George Bernard Shaw

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness…

— George Bernard Shaw

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often…

— George Bernard Shaw

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much…

— George Bernard Shaw

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price…

— 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

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from…

— George Bernard Shaw

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:…

— George Bernard Shaw

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is…

— George Bernard Shaw

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

— George Bernard Shaw

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

— George Bernard Shaw

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

— George Bernard Shaw

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

— George Bernard Shaw

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

— George Bernard Shaw

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

— George Bernard Shaw

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

— George Bernard Shaw