George Bernard Shaw Want Quotations

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.