Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of George Bernard Shaw

Biography : Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

George Bernard Shaw - Quotes

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman /

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw - Heartbreak house /

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw /

truth

Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw /

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
George Bernard Shaw /

change

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman /

others

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman /

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.
George Bernard Shaw /

He who can, does. He who can't, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw /

power

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw /

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw /

time

A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone else.
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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
George Bernard Shaw /

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
George Bernard Shaw /

happiness

My way of joking is telling the truth.
It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw - John Bull's Other Island /

truth

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw /

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw /

life

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw /

danger

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw /

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw /

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw /

love

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw /

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw /

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw /

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw /

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw /

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw /

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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George Bernard Shaw - Quotes

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