George Bernard Shaw's quote

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one. (George Bernard Shaw, to Winston Churchill) Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one. (Churchill's response)
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner; Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend... "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription... "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw."
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. The Apple Cart (Bernard Shaw / ISBN:1417942037)
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
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. Man and Superman
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." <em>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)</em> "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." <em>&mdash; Churchill's response</em>
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. Back to Methuselah
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Man and Superman
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. Man and Superman
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. Mrs. Warren's Profession
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
All great truths begin as blasphemies. Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
I&rsquo;m an atheist and I thank God for it.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts
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.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. Major Barbara
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. Mrs. Warren's Profession
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. Man and Superman
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. Man and Superman
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she&rsquo;s treated. Pygmalion &amp; My Fair Lady
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The longer I live, the more I realize 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!
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would happen.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.