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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  • The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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  • The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
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  • The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
    London Morning Post , December 3, 1925
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  • The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
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  • The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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  • The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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  • The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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  • The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
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  • The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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  • The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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  • The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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  • The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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  • The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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  • The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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  • The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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  • The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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  • The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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  • The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
    New Statesman (6 May 1950)
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  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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  • The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
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