George Bernard Shaw Quotes And Sayings

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“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“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. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“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 is like a flame that is always burning itself out…”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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