George Bernard Shaw Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of George Bernard Shaw quotes and sayings. Shaw was an Irish playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics.

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. ”
– George Bernard Shaw

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed, he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Bear it like a man, even if you feel it like an ass. ”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men‘s imperfections, and conceal your own.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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