George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard ShawYou see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard ShawLove is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard ShawThe liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard ShawLife at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of life.
George Bernard ShawThere is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard ShawI 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.
George Bernard ShawEverything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard ShawWhen a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard ShawProperty is organized robbery.
George Bernard ShawLiberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
George Bernard ShawIf more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
George Bernard ShawYou see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard ShawI never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard ShawCommon sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard ShawI often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard ShawMarriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard ShawMy method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard ShawNobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
George Bernard ShawThere are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard ShawWe don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard ShawDemocracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard ShawA doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
George Bernard ShawWhat we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard ShawThe only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself
George Bernard Shaw
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