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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish-English writer and critic

Lived from: 1856 - 1950

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950

  • Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
  • Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
  • How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
  • 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.
  • Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
  • Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
  • He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
  • Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
  • 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.
  • I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
  • You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and believe anything.
  • A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
  • It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
  • All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
  • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
  • Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
  • Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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  • A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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  • Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
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  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
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  • A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
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  • All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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  • I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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  • I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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  • If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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  • In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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  • In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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  • Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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  • Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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  • Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
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  • Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
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  • Syllables govern the world.
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  • Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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  • The best reformers the world has ever seen
    are those who commence on themselves.
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What are the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw?

The two most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw are:

  • "A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
  • "Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world."

When did George Bernard Shaw live?

George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 and died in the year 1950.