Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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

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  • Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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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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  • Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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  • She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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  • Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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  • Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
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  • Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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  • Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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  • Syllables govern the world.
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  • Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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  • Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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  • That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
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  • The 100% American is 99% idiot.
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  • The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
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  • The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
    Man and Superman (1903)
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  • The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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  • The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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  • The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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  • The best reformers the world has ever seen
    are those who commence on themselves.
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  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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