100+ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Art Crude Reality Unbearable Work
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Adapt Himself Man Persist Reason World
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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Apple exchange Ideas Satisfaction
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Human Patriotism Peace Quiet Race World
A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Alcohol Drunk Happiness Man One Liner Sober
Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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Business Chance Hustle Inspirational Lost Success
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Courage Delight Easy Life
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Cease Funny Laugh Life People Serious
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Alone Imagination Lost Love One Liner
When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Beginning Broken Broken Heart Burn Ending Happiness Heart Peace
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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Blame Circumstances Human Nature People
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Inspirational One Liner Road Wrong
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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Behave Difference Flower Girl Lady Respect Treat Women
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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Imitation Knowledge Learning Sincere
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Ferocity Man Murder Perspective Sport Tiger
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Death Live Reason Satisfaction
Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Animal Eat Friendship Funny Humour Vegetarian
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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Career Ignorance Politics Thinking
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Funny Hate Humour Man
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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Decide Doubt Fear Life Success
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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Born Conviction Country Fundamental Patriotism World
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Each Other Earth Freedom Independence Soul
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Atheist God Humour One Liner Religion
You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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Dreamss Inspirational
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Beautiful Book Love Man Perfection Truth
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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Choose Conceal Hear Imperfection Silence Virtue
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Education Feeling Knowledge Leaning Lost

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