Top Quotes of George Bernard Shaw
- “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?'” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Youth is wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw
Top Quotes of George Bernard Shaw
Quotes about Life and Love by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Quotes about Dream and Happiness
Money Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw’s Quotes about Time
Quotes about Mother and Beauty by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Quotes about History
Quotes about Life and Love by 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
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Quotes about Dream and Happiness
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
George Bernard Shaw
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
George Bernard Shaw
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, ‘Why?’. But I dream things and I say, ‘Why not?’.
George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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 test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Money Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
George Bernard Shaw
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
George Bernard Shaw
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
George Bernard Shaw
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
George Bernard Shaw
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
George Bernard Shaw
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
George Bernard Shaw
The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
George Bernard Shaw
What’s the use of money if you have to earn it.
George Bernard Shaw
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw’s Quotes about Time
Better never than late.
George Bernard Shaw
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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
Time enough to think of the future when you haven’t any future to think of.
George Bernard Shaw
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes about Mother and Beauty by George Bernard Shaw
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
George Bernard Shaw
My mother married a very good man … and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
George Bernard Shaw
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
George Bernard Shaw
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
George Bernard Shaw
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
George Bernard Shaw
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Quotes about History
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
George Bernard Shaw
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
George Bernard Shaw