Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that...

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that...

Better never than late.

Better never than late.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it...

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it...