George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Forgive, Nor

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

Time, Enough, Everybody

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Secret, Miserable

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

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Woman, Quarrel, Test

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

Failure, Work, Young

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

Soul, Another, Earth

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

Science, Problem, Ten

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Government, Democracy, Few

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

Food, Show, Few

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

Thinking, Two, Once

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw

Same, Socialism, English

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Bad, Battle, Soul

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Fight, Battle

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

Gardening, God, Best

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

Men, Power, However

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Good, Great, Courage

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

Best, Children, Honesty

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw

Stupid, Duty, Ashamed

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism, Country, Others

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw

Moment, Become, Against

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

Great, Begin, Truths

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw

America, Empty, Sane

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw

Difficult, Loses, Occupied

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw

Success, Greatest, Secret

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26, 1856

Died: November 2, 1950

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