George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

- George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

- George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

- George Bernard Shaw

The man who listens to Reason is lost. Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

- George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

- George Bernard Shaw

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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

- George Bernard Shaw

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

- George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries divided by a common language.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

- George Bernard Shaw

The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

- George Bernard Shaw

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

- George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

- George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

- George Bernard Shaw

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

- George Bernard Shaw

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

- George Bernard Shaw

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

- George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

- George Bernard Shaw

My reputation grows with every failure.

- George Bernard Shaw