Time Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

— George Bernard Shaw

May you live in interesting times

— George Bernard Shaw

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

— George Bernard Shaw

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

— George Bernard Shaw

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against…

— George Bernard Shaw

“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...”

— George Bernard Shaw

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

— George Bernard Shaw

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

— George Bernard Shaw

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

— 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

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single…

— George Bernard Shaw

“At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of. No, Eliza: do…

— George Bernard Shaw

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our…

— 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

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for…

— George Bernard Shaw

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on…

— George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in…

— George Bernard Shaw

“On Monday last I sat without a murmur in a stuffy theatre on a summer afternoon from three to nearly half-past 6,…

— George Bernard Shaw

“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of…

— George Bernard Shaw

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege…

— George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it…

— George Bernard Shaw

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of…

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“HIGGINS I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned…

— George Bernard Shaw

“It becomes obvious the moment we acknowledge the futility of breeding men for special qualities as we breed cocks for game, greyhounds…

— George Bernard Shaw

“THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired…

— George Bernard Shaw

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

— George Bernard Shaw

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

— George Bernard Shaw

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more…

— George Bernard Shaw

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

— George Bernard Shaw