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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Irish
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Dramatist
July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
Communication
Illusion
Problem
Single
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Place
Taken
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
Art
You
Face
Soul
Glass
Mirror
See
Use
Works
Your
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Life
Nothing
Doing
Mistakes
Honorable
Making
Making Mistakes
More
Only
Spent
Than
Useful
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Life
Yourself
About
Finding
Creating
Finding Yourself
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
Stop
Grow
Old
Because
Playing
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw
You
Never
Dream
See
Say
Things
Were
Why
Why Not
I Dream
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
Myself
Communication
Conversation
Adds
Often
Quote
Spice
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing
Fashion
Epidemic
Induced
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
Secrets
Only
Keep
Themselves
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
Only
He
Moral
Uncomfortable
Englishman
Thinks
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty
Tyranny
Short-Lived
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw
May
Nothing
Doing
Serious
Consequences
Unless
Worth
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Political
Nothing
Everything
He
Career
Clearly
Knows
Points
Political Career
Thinks
Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
Property
Robbery
Organized
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
Pain
Any
Beginning
Beyond
Boats
Broken
Burned
Curious
End
Feeling
Goes
Matters
Mercifully
More
Nothing
Nothing Matters
Our
Powers
Sensation
Sort
Your
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
Faults
Qualities
Burglar
Financier
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
Die
Any
Cease
Ceases
Does
Laugh
More
Serious
Than
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
You
World
Yourself
Window
Better
Bright
Clean
Keep
Must
See
Through
Which
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
America
Language
Same
Two
Countries
England
Separated
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw
Enough
Us
Make
Our
Any
Few
Instincts
Vitality
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Freedom
Responsibility
Men
Liberty
Dread
Means
Most
Why
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Truth
Great
Begin
Truths
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Time
Enough
Everything
Happens
Everybody
Later
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
Man
More
Sober
Point
Believer
Drunken
Fact
Happier
Skeptic
Than
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
Difficult
Question
Answer
Which
No Question
Obvious
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
Family
Service
Country
Up
Anybody
Bring
Greatest
Mankind
Perhaps
Rendered
Social
Social Service
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Funny
Family
You
May
Dance
Cannot
Get
Make
Rid
Skeleton
Well
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw
You
Stupid
Dangerous
Sincere
Also
Unless
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Love
Food
Than
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
Dreams
Children
Youth
Crime
Waste
Thing
Wonderful
Wonderful Thing
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Art
World
Reality
Without
Make
Unbearable
Would
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Health
You
Yourself
Die
Before
Even
Out
Outlive
Point
Spend
Use
Wearing
Your
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
Censorship
Extreme
Form
Assassination
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
Finance
Never
End
Reach
Conclusion
Economists
Laid
Were
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
You
Happy
Way
Enough
Avoid
Being
Leisure
Miserable
Only
Whether
Wonder
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness
Wealth
More
Right
Consume
Producing
Than
Without
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw
Love
Beauty
Truth
Knowledge
Abide
Achieved
Glory
Humanity
Only
Paper
Virtue
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
Power
Who
Observation
Cynicism
Got
Accurate
Commonly
Those
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge
See
Want
Child
Pursuit
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
You
Always
Lost
Something
Feels
First
Had
Learnt
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Love
Love Is
Person
Difference
Else
Between
Everybody
Everybody Else
Exaggeration
Gross
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
Man
Marriage
Window
Woman
Alliance
Anniversary
Entered
Open
Shut
Sleep
Who
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
You
Yourself
Children
Your
Example
Hold
Lesson
Must
Object
Up
Warning
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
You
World
Patriotism
Never
Human
Human Race
Knock
Out
Quiet
Race
Till
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
Man
Religion
Bible
Always
Believes
Convinced
Ever
He
Means
Says
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw
Sex
Advice
He
Anything
About
Knows
Pope
Should
Take
Why
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
Science
Never
More
Without
Problem
Creating
Ten
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
Time
Society
Poverty
Rich
Matter
Poor
Questions
Social
Waste
Your
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Power
Conversation
Trouble
Speech
Her
Lacks
She
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Nature
Man
Tree
He
Affairs
Before
Breath
Does
Draws
Except
First
His
Months
Nine
Nine Months
Well
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