George Bernard Shaw Firsts Quotations

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

Our first duty is not to be poor.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.