George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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Motivation & Inspiration 1.9
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Life & Living 1.9
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Love & Relationships 1.5
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw
Life & Living 1.1
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy & Thinking 1.0
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
- George Bernard Shaw
Poetry & Arts 1.0
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
- George Bernard Shaw
Books & Reading 0.7
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Power & Leadership 0.6
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
- George Bernard Shaw
Poetry & Arts 0.6
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
- George Bernard Shaw
Education & Learning 0.5
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
- George Bernard Shaw
Poetry & Arts 0.5
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
- George Bernard Shaw
Science & Discovery 0.5
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
- George Bernard Shaw
Humor & Wit 0.3
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth & Honesty 0.3
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
- George Bernard Shaw
Humor & Wit 0.3
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
- George Bernard Shaw
Friendship & Companionship 0.3
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
- George Bernard Shaw
Love & Relationships 0.2
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
- George Bernard Shaw
Success & Achievement 0.2
"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
- George Bernard Shaw
Success & Achievement 0.1
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
- George Bernard Shaw
Humor & Wit 0.1
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Hope & Optimism 0.1
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Humor & Wit 0.0
"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
- George Bernard Shaw
Humor & Wit 0.0
"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Faith & Spirituality 0.0
"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Motivation & Inspiration 0.0
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."
- George Bernard Shaw
Books & Reading 0.0
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]"
- George Bernard Shaw
Life & Living 0.0
"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
Work & Career 0.0
"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
Humor & Wit 0.0
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
- George Bernard Shaw
Motivation & Inspiration 0.0
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
- George Bernard Shaw