George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-07-26 – 1950-11-02) was an Irish playwright, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
Found 268 thoughts of George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

George Bernard Shaw

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 little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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 Shaw

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Syllables govern the world.

George Bernard Shaw

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw
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