George Bernard Shaw Character Quotes

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

- George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

- George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

- George Bernard Shaw

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

- George Bernard Shaw

Satisfaction is death.

- George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

- George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else

- George Bernard Shaw

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.

- George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't become the most successful person that nobody likes.

- Mel Robbins

When someone betrays you, it is a reflection of their character, not yours.

- Anonymous

What you are will show in what you do

- Thomas Edison

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

- Charles Darwin

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

- Benjamin Franklin