George Bernard Shaw Quotes

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.