George Bernard Shaw Ten Quotations

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work

As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!