George Bernard Shaw Quotes and Quotations
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You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never
were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe
in circumstances. 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 Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we
crucified it.
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it.
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
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than
a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support
of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has
been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny, when people die, any more than it ceases to
be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries
because you were born in it
George Bernard Shaw
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. Life is no
"brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have
got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries
because you were born in it
George Bernard Shaw
when two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most
delusive, and most transient of passions. They are required to swear that they
will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously
until death do them part.
George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
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