George Bernard Shaw was an Irish born British playwright, critic, man of letters, socialist pamphleteer and lecturer, and is said to be one of the most influential figures in modern literature. He is also the co founder of the London School of Economics.
Shaw was almost forty before he began to taste success from his writings and he continued to write until his death when he was ninety four years old. His works won him the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1925, and an Academy Award in 1938. It is remarkable that he turned down all other awards, including the offer of a knighthood.
A lot of his plays and sayings dealt with social problems and problems of individual growth, using comedies to bring laughter as a means to clarity of thought, strength of purpose and healthier feeling.
Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes
From this man who had irregular education due to his dislike of any organized training we can learn some important lessons. Shaw has so many notable quotes and sayings that you can find wisdom and lessons. Here are some good famous quotes about George Bernard Shaw.
Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future, today is a gift – that’s why it’s called ‘the present’.
– George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
– George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
– George Bernard Shaw
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
– George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
– George Bernard Shaw
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
– George Bernard Shaw
If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
– George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
– George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
– George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
– George Bernard Shaw
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
– George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
– George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
– George Bernard Shaw
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
– George Bernard Shaw
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
– George Bernard Shaw
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
– George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
– George Bernard Shaw
Motivational Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quotes will inspire you never to give up, and regardless of how many times you may seem to fail there is always room to begin afresh and one day you will eventually succeed.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
– George Bernard Shaw
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
– George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
– George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
– George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
– George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
– George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair.
– George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
– George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get.
– George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
– George Bernard Shaw
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
– George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
– George Bernard Shaw
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
– George Bernard Shaw
Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
– George Bernard Shaw
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
– George Bernard Shaw
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
– George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by George Bernard Shaw urge the individual to continually strive to move forward because stagnation in personal growth is not really an option.
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
– George Bernard Shaw
You will think less of the art, when you know the artist.
– George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
– George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
– George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
– George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
– George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
– George Bernard Shaw
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
– George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
– George Bernard Shaw
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
– George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
– George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius.
– George Bernard Shaw
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
– George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
– George Bernard Shaw
If you’re going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.
– George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
– George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
– George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
– George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
– George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
– George Bernard Shaw
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
– George Bernard Shaw
