George Bernard Shaw's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#32446
Freedom, is being able to rely on the behavior to others.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32447
Ordinary wine, drinking water from the French.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte Jeanne)

#32448
If the English can survive in their kitchen, they can survive anything.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32449
The drama was born of the union of two old desires: the desire to dance and to hear a story. The dance became declamation, and history, situation.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32450
The minority is sometimes right, the majority is always wrong.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32451
Life is not a long unforeseen event.

George Bernard Shaw
(Pygmalion)

#32452
When we can't enjoy what you have, you better be able to have what we can appreciate.

George Bernard Shaw
(Pygmalion)

#32453
It must behave as if we were in heaven, where there is a third class car and where a soul is worth another.

George Bernard Shaw
(Pygmalion)

#32454
It is quite enough time to think in the future when there is no future.

George Bernard Shaw
(Pygmalion)

#32455
A man agrees to obey the accredited authority, less it accepts that a person without a certified authority gives him orders.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32456
The big secret is not having good or bad manners, it's to have the same mannerisms towards all human creatures.

George Bernard Shaw
(Pygmalion)

#32457
Fear drives men to any extreme decision.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32458
In the war, the courage and the impetuosity are good servants. But these bad teachers.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32459
Fashion that we think changes like fashion that we dress and for most people, it is difficult, if not impossible, to think otherwise than according to the fashion of their time.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32460
Create the life that's in trouble.

George Bernard Shaw
(Pygmalion)

#32461
It is much more dangerous to be a saint than a conqueror.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32462
A miracle is an event that creates faith.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32463
What is life, if not a series of inspired Follies?

George Bernard Shaw
(Pygmalion)

#32464
When someone drowns, we think his family who will wonder first why we're late for tea and then what's going to happen because we don't have made a will.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32465
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful woman, all two moderate drinkers, in a moderately healthy home, that's the true type of the bourgeois class.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32466
Assuming that a woman declares her love to a man in the five acts of a play, it is monotonous if it's the same man.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32467
Money means nothing to the man who has more than necessary.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32468
Architects are hiding their mistakes Ivy, doctors under the Earth and stoves slot slot of mayonnaise.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32469
There are crazy people everywhere, even in asylums.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32470
Human beings are the only animals which I actually fear.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32471
The pessimist? A man who wants to all men because he finds them as disgusting as he!

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32472
The loneliness of God is his strength.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32473
It is a pity garbageman of misery.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32474
England and America are separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32475
The assassination is the most extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw
(The Rejected Statement)

#32476
My specialty is to be right when the others are wrong.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32477
Decadence can find agents that when she wears the mask of progress.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32478
When a man, teaching what he knows not to someone who has no ability to learn it, give him a degree, he completed his education of man.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32479
When God created man and woman, he stupidly forgot to file the patent, so that now the first came fool can do the same.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32480
The Americans are happy when they can add a little House to their garage.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32481
My method is to take the most worries as possible to find the thing to say, and then say it with extreme lightness.

George Bernard Shaw
(Réponses à neuf questions)

#32482
I've never admired the courage of the tamers. In a cage, they are immune to men!

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32483
Even for his own good, I don't want to force anyone to think of me as his favorite author.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32484
People who come to something in this world are those who get up, looking for the circumstances they want, and who, if they can't find them, make.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32485
The ferocity is the characteristic of the bulls and other vegetarians.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32486
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. This no doubt presages a political career.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32487
All sexual perversions, chastity is the most dangerous.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32488
A dictionary is like a watch; It is better to have one bad than not at all, but the best is never quite right.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32489
Hypocrisy is the tribute that the truth pays for error.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32490
There are two kinds of scholars: specialists, who know all about nothing, and philosophers, who know nothing about everything.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32491
There are three kinds of people who can ask the common sense: a man who loves, a woman who loves a woman who dislikes.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32492
Many people are ever young; Some people are never old.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32493
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw
(L'Autre île de John Bull)

#32494
Higher spirits include always difficult to raise some fury by highlighting the stupidities of relatively dull people.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32495
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32496
Modes are after all only induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32497
If you offend your neighbor, you better not do half.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32498
A man without a home is a vagrant: a man with two homes is a libertine.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32499
When a fool did something that he's ashamed, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw
(César et Cléopâtre)

#32500
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw
(La commandante Barbara)

#32501
What a beautiful thing youth! What a crime to let her ruin by young people.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32502
You can find obscene things in all books except in the phone book.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32503
Murder on the scaffold is the most execrable assassination shape, because he is invested with the approval of the company.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32504
The crime is the retail store of the wholesale store that we call criminal law.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32505
Modesty is the conspiracy of silence of shamelessness.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32506
All professions are conspiracies against laymen.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32507
I do my best to be biased.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32508
If all economists were held by the hand, they cannot even manage to a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32509
The marriage is often compared to a lottery. It is a mistake, because the lottery, we can sometimes win.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32510
In the strict sense of the word, any man who is somewhat specialist is an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32511
Martyrdom is the only way for a man to become famous without talent.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32512
Life does not cease to be gay because someone dies, just as she does not cease to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32513
When a woman of the world says no, that means perhaps; When she says maybe, that means yes; and when she says Yes, is not a woman of the world.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32514
A speech, it's like adultery. Any fool can start it. Finish it requires another skill

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32515
The best way to become familiar with a topic, it is to devote a book.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32516
Having common sense is innate. Have enough common sense is genius.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32517
Death does not impress me, I myself, in fact, the intention to die one day.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32518
If it wasn't for the Socialists, socialism was to rule the world.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32519
After hearing a number of piano recitals, nothing more than sit in the dentist's Chair and let me take a few teeth relaxes me.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32520
Nowadays, the man in the world is he who has enough money to do what would all the fools, if they had the means: that is to consume without producing.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32521
Can we get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead?

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32522
Virtue is not to abstain but to not desire.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32523
The explanation of the unhappiness of many people, is that they have the time to ask if they are happy or if they are not.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32524
An Englishman sees virtue where there is that uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32525
Nothing is ever accomplished is through a reasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32526
We must consider the fact that society is based on intolerance in front.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32527
Drama critics are also hollow is it possible to be without falling apart physically.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32528
In our time, we refused to believe that the lead can be turned into gold... until we receive the invoice of the plumber.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32529
A perfect love, is one that is conducted by mail.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32530
Those that we call brutes had their revenge when Darwin proved us that they were cousins.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32531
The fickleness of women I love was matched only by the unbearable constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32532
The annoyance of some conversations, it's the talkers to speak there too high so that their comments can put us to sleep.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32533
Alcohol is an anesthetic that can support the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32534
A life riddled with errors is more honorable and especially more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32535
A scholar is a sloth who spends his time studying. Beware of his mistakes: they are more dangerous than its shortcomings.

George Bernard Shaw
(L'homme et le surhomme)

#32536
To produce a book, only the author and bookseller are necessary. Without intermediate parasites.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32537
Revolutions have never reduced the burden of tyranny, they only transferred him on one another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32538
I owe my fame to the fact that I think once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32539
The laws of success at the theatre are held in two articles. Article 1: they have not changed for two thousand years. Article two: nobody knows.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32540
Adolescence is the age when children begin to answer the questions they ask themselves.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32541
Make sure you get what you like, otherwise you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d’un révolutionnaire)

#32542
The secret of success is to offend as many people as possible.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32543
Independence is true although we support the solitude.

George Bernard Shaw
(Mes inscriptions)

#32544
The profession of arms is the art of the Coward; It is the art to attack without mercy when we're strong, and to keep away from the danger when you're low. that's the secret of victory.

George Bernard Shaw
(Le Héros et le soldat)

#32545
The most worried man of a prison is the Director.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32546
Some read because they're too lazy to think. The way of ignorance is paved with good editions.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32547
An ideologue is someone who went to the task of making the better man than humanity.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32548
Loving a woman is overestimate the difference between one woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32549
No man is equal to a woman, if not with a poker and a pair of shoes to nails. And yet, even so, isn't always.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32550
I have this gift of observation, vulgarly called cynicism by those who do not.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32551
If you want to be strong as an ox, you eat beef - and not the beef...!

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32552
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume health without production.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32553
What are the cartridges in a battle? Me, instead, I always carry chocolate.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32554
Democracy is a technique that guarantees us not be better governed than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32555
Our country is the only nation in the world where there are so many problems that elsewhere.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32556
To turn off the remorse, it is to repeat often the Act which gave rise.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32557
A man described always unconsciously himself when he described someone else.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32558
Not trying to be immortal, you'd be doomed to failure.

George Bernard Shaw
(The doctor's dilemma)

#32559
The family home is a prison for young girls and a House of correction for women.

George Bernard Shaw
(L'Homme et le surhomme)

#32560
Success is not to never make a mistake, but to never make the same mistake twice.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32561
If you have an Apple, I have an Apple and we exchange our apples, we each will have an Apple. But if you have an idea, I have an idea and we exchange our ideas, we each will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32562
Live is not to be, it is to create.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32563
A lifetime of happiness! It is not man who can endure it: it would be hell on Earth.

George Bernard Shaw
(L'homme et le surhomme)

#32564
It's not the hours that are valuable, are the minutes.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32565
A lion cannot be very formidable. There no ideal, no religion, no political opinion, no courtesy, no education.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32566
As long as we have prisons, no matter by whom the cells are occupied.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32567
What good is money if you have to work to get?

George Bernard Shaw
(L'Homme et le surhomme)

#32568
Any Government that robs Peter to pay Paul is always depends on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32569
Beware of the man whose God is in the heavens.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32570
At the appointment of a small minority of corrupt democracy substitutes election by incompetent mass.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32571
Obedience simulates the subordination, exactly as the fear of the police simulates honesty.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32572
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born there.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32573
The sacrifice of ourselves allows us to sacrifice others without shame.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32574
Do not to others what you would have them do you. Their tastes may differ from yours.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32575
I can't quite see why men who believe in the electrons themselves as less gullible than men who believe in angels.

George Bernard Shaw
(La vraie et présomptueuse Jeanne)

#32576
A revolutionary's who want to scrap the existing social order, to try another.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32577
Who wants a life of happiness with a beautiful woman like that who wants to enjoy the taste of the wine with the mouth always full.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32578
When, in this world, a man has something to say, the difficulty is not to tell him, but prevent it from say too often.

George Bernard Shaw
(César et Cléopâtre)

#32579
Hate, it's the revenge of the coward.

George Bernard Shaw
(Major Barbara)

#32580
Man is the only animal that blush; It is the only animal that has to be ashamed of something.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32581
Modesty is not a virtue of prudence.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32582
There is no love more sincere than that of good food.

George Bernard Shaw
(L'homme et le surhomme)

#32583
Reading is a ploy that dispenses to reflect.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32584
A woman worries about the future until she found a husband, while a man worries about the future until he found a wife.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32585
A bank will lend you an umbrella when it's nice and you take it back when it rains.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32586
Whisky is a bad thing, especially the bad whisky.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32587
The surest way to ruin a man who can't manage his money is to give more.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32588
The advantage of the prison on the college, is in jail we're not required to read the books written by the jailers.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32589
Not to be an anarchist at sixteen, it's run out of heart. Being still in forty years, it's lack of judgment.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32590
I often quote myself, it brings spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32591
The books always win to not be played: look at our classics.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32592
When a man and a woman are married, they do more than one. The first challenge is to decide which one.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32593
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32594
The old men are dangerous: they laugh well of what can happen after them.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32595
Better to end his life in the arms of a woman than in the two arms of a Chair.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32596
The only sport I've ever played, it's walking, when I was following the funerals of my sports friends.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32597
The punishment of a liar is not believed not, is that he cannot trust anyone.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32598
The first love requires only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw
(La Seconde Ile de John Bull)

#32599
Human slavery reached its culmination in our time in the form of freely salaried work.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32600
When a man wants to kill a tiger, he calls it sport; When a tiger wants to kill him, he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32601
Much more widely, we can do without men that women, that is why it is they are sacrificed in the war.

George Bernard Shaw
(Sainte-Jeanne)

#32602
The common people do not pray, they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw
(Mésalliance)

#32603
You see things and you say: why? Me, I dream of things that never were and I say: why not?

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32604
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he can stick for a long time.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32605
Fidelity is not more natural to man than the Tiger cage.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32606
Give women the right to vote and in five years, you will have a tax on bachelors.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32607
We still have faith. But what we expected of God, we expect it today medical science.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32608
The Nobel Prize, it is a lifeline to a swimmer who has already reached the shore.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32609
Log: unable to make a difference between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32610
Virtue is not sufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32611
Chasing after women did not hurt anyone. It is after them which is dangerous.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32612
When we do something, we have against itself, those who wanted to do it on your behalf, those who wanted to do the opposite and those who wanted to do nothing at all.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32613
Alcohol is a very necessary product... It allows Parliament to take at eleven o'clock in the evening of the decisions no sensible man would take to eleven o'clock in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32614
Marriage, is the story of a young man and a young girl who pick a flower and receive an avalanche on the head.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32615
Attachment of the woman for the man, it is the attachment of the policeman for his prisoner.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32616
The reasonable man adapts to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32617
All great truths begin by being blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw
(Annajanska)

#32618
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32619
What really flatters a man, is that it is considered worthy to be flattered.

George Bernard Shaw
(L'Autre île de John Bull)

#32620
I'm afraid that we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw
(Le disciple du diable)

#32621
To heaven, an Angel is not exceptional.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32622
One who can, is. Those who can't, teach.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32623
Freedom means responsibility. This is why most men dread her.

George Bernard Shaw
(Maximes pour révolutionnaires)

#32624
It is dangerous to be honest, unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw
(Bréviaire d'un révolutionnaire)

#32625
There is only one religion, though there are hundreds of versions.

George Bernard Shaw
(Pièces plaisantes)

#32626
The worst sin towards our fellow human beings, is not to hate them, but to treat them with indifference; This is the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw
(Le disciple du diable)

#32627
Called family circle a place where the child is circled.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

#32628
Humanity would be happy if the men were putting all their genius to fix their nonsense long, but to not commit.

George Bernard Shaw
(Source inconnue)

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