George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
Born: July 26, 1856, Dublin
Died: November 2, 1950, Ayot St Lawrence
Awards: Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, Nobel Prize in Literature
 

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
- George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
- George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.
- George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire,you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw

Better never than late.
- George Bernard Shaw

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
- George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw

Most people do not pray; they only beg.
- George Bernard Shaw

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
- George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- George Bernard Shaw

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw