G > G's Quotes

“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
― 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, The Doctor's Dilemma

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
― George Bernard Shaw