George Bernard Shaw quotes

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist, renowned for his wit and influence on western theatre. His plays often challenged social norms and addressed political and moral issues. He became one of the most significant dramatists of his era and received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here are 828 of his quotes:

Hate is the coward's revenge for being humiliated. (George Bernard Shaw)
The most sincere form of love is love for food. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. View quote
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. (George Bernard Shaw)
Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? View quote
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. View quote
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. (George Bernard Shaw)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there is not golden rule. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. View quote
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

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Occupation: Irish Playwright
Born: July 26, 1856
Died: November 2, 1950
Quotes count: 828
Wikipedia: George Bernard Shaw

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