George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
304 Quotes
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
George Bernard Shaw
"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."
George Bernard Shaw
"My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience."
George Bernard Shaw
"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."
George Bernard Shaw
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
George Bernard Shaw
"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
George Bernard Shaw
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
George Bernard Shaw
"My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.[From the will of GBS]"
George Bernard Shaw
"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
George Bernard Shaw
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
George Bernard Shaw
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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 Mrs. Warren's Profession
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
George Bernard Shaw
"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
George Bernard Shaw
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
George Bernard Shaw
"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 Man and Superman
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
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
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
George Bernard Shaw
"I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot."
George Bernard Shaw
"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."
George Bernard Shaw
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