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George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Life

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Love

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

George Bernard Shaw

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Browse 219 quotes attributed to George Bernard Shaw, listed in the source data as a Irish Dramatist, organized around themes such as Life, Love, Happiness. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.