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

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.
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truth

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

Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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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.
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power

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

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.
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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.
George Bernard Shaw

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.
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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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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time

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.
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw - Quotes

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