George Bernard Shaw Quotes And Sayings

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“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one: and that one is his cowardice.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Morals are a luxury of the rich.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….”
– George Bernard Shaw

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Shall I turn up the light for you?
– George Bernard Shaw

“She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“She has mischievous moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island…”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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