100+ 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

Believe Convinced Man Religion
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Change Impossible Inspirational Mind Progress Success
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Amateur Funny Hell Music One Liner
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Happen One Liner Sad Wait
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Declare Duty Man Shame Stupid
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Cod Egg Maturity Photography Produce
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Conservation Insult Lack Power Speech Trouble
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Believe Conviction Creative Evolution Religion Science
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Entrepreneur Gentleman Man World
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Entrepreneur Gentleman Man World
I do not know what I think until I write it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

One Liner Thinking Writing
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Alcohol Chloroform Enable Liquor Live Man Operation Pain Poverty
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Care Funny Hide One Liner Search Truth
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Beyond Curious Feeling Pain Power Sensation
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Crime Criminal Die Hands Law Man
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Democracy Deserve Device Government
Whisky is liquid sunshine.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Alcohol Funny Liquid One Liner Sunshine Whisky
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Himself Man People Time Writing
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Communication Illusion Misunderstanding Place Problem
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Consume Happiness Produce
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Bother Happiness Leisure Secret
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Dance Family Funny Humour Rid Skeleton
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Dance Family Funny Humour Rid Skeleton
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Freedom Golden Life One Liner Rules
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Book Children Read Rules Yourself
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Depression Desire Gain Heart Life Lost Tragedy Trouble
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Human Nature Kill Laugh People Reality Truth

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