George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

George Bernard Shaw

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

George Bernard Shaw

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

George Bernard Shaw

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