Want Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

— George Bernard Shaw

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

— George Bernard Shaw

I want to be all used up when I die.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

— George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

— George Bernard Shaw

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

— 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

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

— George Bernard Shaw

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

— George Bernard Shaw

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

— George Bernard Shaw

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable…

— George Bernard Shaw

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something…

— George Bernard Shaw

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for…

— George Bernard Shaw

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by…

— George Bernard Shaw

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage.…

— 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

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct…

— George Bernard Shaw

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them,…

— George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force…

— 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

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

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

— George Bernard Shaw

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come…

— George Bernard Shaw

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they…

— George Bernard Shaw

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act…

— 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

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do…

— George Bernard Shaw

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are…

— 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