Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes and Quotations

Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes and Quotations

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
George Bernard Shaw
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life does not cease to be funny, when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw