George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) - The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925, Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate of equality of income. Shaw accepted the honour but refused the money.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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

My reputation grows with every failure.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.