George Bernard Shaw Quotes on World (37 Quotes)


    If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

    Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

    Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one.




    The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor

    The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

    Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get a man through his own religion, not through yours.



    That is what all poets do they talk to themselves out loud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

    All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible. . .

    Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

    You dont learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

    Money is indeed the most important thing in the world and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

    The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honour, generosity and beauty.... Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

    Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

    We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

    When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.


    What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

    The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply as by eating macaroni instead of mutton chops.

    My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

    This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

    Tyndall declared that he saw in Matter the promise and potency of all forms of life, and with his Irish graphic lucidity made a picture of a world of magnetic atoms, each atom with a positive and a negative pole, arranging itself by attraction and repulsion in orderly crystalline structure. Such a picture is dangerously fascinating to thinkers oppressed by the bloody disorders of the living world. Craving for purer subjects of thought, they find in the contemplation of crystals and magnets a happiness more dramatic and less childish than the happiness found by mathematicians in abstract numbers, because they see in the crystals beauty and movement without the corrupting appetites of fleshly vitality.


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

    When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind

    The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

    To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

    The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

    The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

    The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

    Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

    A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows. . .


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