Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes (Author of Pygmalion)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes:
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
1. After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
― George Bernard Shaw
2. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
― George Bernard Shaw
3. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
― George Bernard Shaw
4. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
― George Bernard Shaw
5. You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
6. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
― George Bernard Shaw
7. Chess ... a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
― George Bernard Shaw
8. It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
― George Bernard Shaw
9. Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
― George Bernard Shaw
10. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
― George Bernard Shaw
11. A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
― George Bernard Shaw
12. The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
― George Bernard Shaw
13. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
― George Bernard Shaw
14. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
― George Bernard Shaw
15. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
― George Bernard Shaw
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