George Bernard Shaw quotes

Born
26 July 1856 Portobello, Dublin, Ireland.

Died
2 November 1950.

Occupation
Playwright.

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays.

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

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
– George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
– George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
– George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
– 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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
– 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

Better never than late.
– George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
– George Bernard Shaw

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

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
– George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
– 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

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
– George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
– George Bernard Shaw

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

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
– George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
– George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
– George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
– George Bernard Shaw

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

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
– George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
– George Bernard Shaw

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
– George Bernard Shaw

I want to be all used up when I die.
– George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
– George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
– George Bernard Shaw

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
– George Bernard Shaw

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
– George Bernard Shaw

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
– George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
– George Bernard Shaw