George Bernard Shaw

Quotes

• “Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prison...”
• “Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."...”
• “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 m...”
• “The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about...”
• “A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University educati...”
• “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.”
• “The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
• “The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”
• “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
• “What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
• “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
• “A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
• “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
• “Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
• “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
• “She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
• “Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
• “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
• “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
• “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
• “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
• “The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
• “The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”
• “First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
• “Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”
• “The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination”
• “A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.”
• “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
• “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
• “In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”
• “I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”