George Bernard Shaw Quotes And Sayings

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“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners,
– George Bernard Shaw

“The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
– George Bernard Shaw

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“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.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“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

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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