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

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

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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love

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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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.
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courage

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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happiness

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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life

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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life

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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beauty

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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truth

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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life

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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interest

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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life

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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experience

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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life

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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