100+ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Imagination is the beginning of creation.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Creative Desire Dreamss Imagination One Liner
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Happiness Hustle Inspirational Success
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Animal Eat Man One Liner Spiritual Vegetarian
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Change Entrepreneur Improvement Inspirational Mind One Liner
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Humour Man One Liner Teaching
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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Cheap DAngry Happiness Life Necessity Quality
You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Creative Desire Imagination
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Drift Heaven Hell One Liner Steer
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Conservation Myself Self Love Spice
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Aeroplane Contribution Invention Optimist Parachute Pessimist Society
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Poverty Rich Social Time Useless Wasted Time
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Bright Cleanliness Window World Yourself
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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Food Love One Liner Sincere
I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Confidence Divine Fire Myself One Liner Soul
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Beware DAngry Education Ignorance Knowledge
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Create Finding Inspirational Life Positive Yourself
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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Food People Time
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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Experience History Humour Learning Men One Liner
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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Coward Hatred Intimidate One Liner Revenge
If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Appreciate Life Satisfaction
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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Genius Honor Man Tragic World
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Art Honor Life Mistake Spend
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Accurate Observation Power Understand
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

God One Liner Religion Version
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Dread Liberty Responsiblity
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Expression One Liner Perfection Scorn Silence
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Dance Desire Dreamss Expression Horizontal

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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