George Bernard Shaw Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old George Bernard Shaw quotes, George Bernard Shaw sayings, and George Bernard Shaw proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. George Bernard Shaw
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. George Bernard Shaw
My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win. George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. George Bernard Shaw
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. George Bernard Shaw
Science, never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. 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
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. George Bernard Shaw
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions. George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw
Thief is not the one who steals, but the one that is caught. George Bernard Shaw
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity. George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. George Bernard Shaw