Top 25 George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by George Bernard Shaw.

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

Top 25 George Bernard Shaw Quotes and Sayings

25

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

― George Bernard Shaw


24

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

― George Bernard Shaw


23

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

― George Bernard Shaw


22

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

― George Bernard Shaw


21

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

― George Bernard Shaw


20

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

― George Bernard Shaw


19

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

― George Bernard Shaw


18

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

― George Bernard Shaw


17

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

― George Bernard Shaw


16

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

― George Bernard Shaw


15

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

― George Bernard Shaw


14

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

― George Bernard Shaw


13

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

― George Bernard Shaw


12

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

― George Bernard Shaw


11

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

― George Bernard Shaw


10

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

― George Bernard Shaw


9

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

― George Bernard Shaw


8

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

― George Bernard Shaw


7

Youth is wasted on the young.

― George Bernard Shaw


6

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

― George Bernard Shaw


5

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

― George Bernard Shaw


4

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

― George Bernard Shaw


3

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

― George Bernard Shaw


2

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

― George Bernard Shaw


1

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

― George Bernard Shaw


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