Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright as well as a co-founder of the London School of Economics. He is one of the finest comic dramatist and literary critic, who have won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Here is a list of some of the famous quotes by George Bernard Shaw.
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “You see things as they are and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Better never than late.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” - 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
- “It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” - George Bernard Shaw
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