George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan"

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw, "St. Joan"

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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

George Bernard Shaw, "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw