« All Giving Quotes · George Bernard Shaw's Page
Giving Quotes by 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 years without finding…
- He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
- You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can…
- I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for…
- Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that…
- The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are…
- Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
- A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and…
- When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which…
- In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty…
- When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency,…
- Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
- I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will…
- The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
- Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
- What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
- Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
- Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
- The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
- We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill…
- Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it:…
- Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the…
- In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
More Giving Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi