George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 3

Irish - Dramatist July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950 Read full biography

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw

Stupid, You, Dangerous, Sincere, Unless

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Miracles, Hand, Explain, Miracle

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw

Happiness, Heart, Peace, Beginning, Pain

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. George Bernard Shaw

Power, Capitalism, Self, Belief, Force

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. George Bernard Shaw

People, World, Look, Find, Circumstances

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

Forgiveness, Man, Yourself, You, Return

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

Woman, Man, Test, Behave, Quarrel, How

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

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

Success, People, Secret, Success Is

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

Patriotism, You, Born, Country, Others

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw

Men, Silence, You, Choose, Own, Virtues

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

Work, Failure, Young, More, Out, Things

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. - George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw

Love, Love Is, Person, Difference, Else

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. George Bernard Shaw

Sacrifice, People, Without, Us, Other

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

Food, Habit, Eating, Survive, Statistics

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. George Bernard Shaw

Daily, God, Bad, Creation, Miracle

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Work, Live, Die, Want, More

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

Experience, Men, Wise, Capacity

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. George Bernard Shaw

Moment, People, Opinions, You, Will

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

Good, Courage, Great, Man, Common Sense

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

Honesty, Children, Best, I Am, World

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. George Bernard Shaw

Money, Man, Anything, Got, He, Says

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw

Wrong, Sometimes, Right, Always

Most people do not pray; they only beg. George Bernard Shaw

People, Pray, Only, Most, Beg

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. George Bernard Shaw

Health, Man, Happy, Stop, Trouble, Never

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Funny, People, Laugh, Die, Serious

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. George Bernard Shaw

Looking, Hell, Heaven, Two, Frontier

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