George Bernard Shaw Quotes

26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950
Playwright, critic and political activist

• GEORGE BERNARD SHAW QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
• A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
• You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?
• A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
• If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
• When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
• It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
• Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
• If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
• Lack of money is the root of all evil.
• 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.
• The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
• Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
• A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
• The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
• He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
• I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
• You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.








• There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
• Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
• A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
• Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
• Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
• Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
• Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
• Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
• My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
• No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
• All great truths begin as blasphemies.
• Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
• I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
• This is the true joy in life, the 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.
• Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
• Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
• My reputation grows with every failure.
• Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
• Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
• Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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