George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“I want to be all used up when I die.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“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.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“My reputation grows with every failure.”
“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Better never than late.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“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 Quotes
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”
- George Bernard Shaw Quotes
