George Bernard Shaw Quotes



      “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

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

      “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

      “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” 
- 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

        “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

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

       “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

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

        “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

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

       “War does not decide who is right but who is left.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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


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

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

       “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

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

        “To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

        “I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

        “Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

        “I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “The best way to get your point across is to entertain.” 
- 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,

        “Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

      “Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

        “Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” 
- George Bernard Shaw

       “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” 
- George Bernard Shaw