George Bernard Shaw Quotes

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

Religion, Means, Bible

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw

Political, Nothing, Everything

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw

Gentleman, Takes, Puts

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw

Rules, Rule, Golden

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw

May, Same, Others

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, Laugh

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw

Food, Friends, Eat

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Silence, Hear

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
George Bernard Shaw

Why, Dream, Ask

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Success, Time, Mistakes

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

Art, Reality, Unbearable

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Person, Else

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Two

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

Anniversary, Marriage, Sleep

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw

Women, Men, Married

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Through, Keep

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw

Heart, Broken, London

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage, Yourself, Friend

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Forgive, Nor

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Everything, Enough

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty, Days, Three

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

Sex, Why, Advice

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Secret, Miserable

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26, 1856

Died: November 2, 1950

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