George Bernard Shaw Quotes about Age

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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

George Bernard Shaw

Heart, Brain, Age

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

George Bernard Shaw

Time, Men, Age

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3694, e-artnow

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw

Time, Age, Generations

Fanny's First Play (1914) "Induction"

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

Age, Youth, Pity

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

Dark, People, Age

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

George Bernard Shaw

People, Age, Looks

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

George Bernard Shaw

Men, Age, Twenties

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

George Bernard Shaw

Confused, Hero, Age

George Bernard Shaw (1968). “Four Plays by Bernard Shaw”, Pocket Books

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

George Bernard Shaw

Change, People, Age

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

George Bernard Shaw

Death, Imagination, Age

Saint Joan (1924) epilogue

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

George Bernard Shaw

Age, Twenties, Fifty

"Universities and Education" (speech at University of Hong Kong), 12 Feb. 1933 See John Adams 19; Clemenceau 5; Guizot 1