George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and political activist who lived from 1856 to 1950. He wrote more than sixty plays and received in 1925 the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This is a collection of quotes by George Bernard Shaw.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw