🔯 George Bernard Shaw 🔯
Nobel
Prize in Literature 1925,Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay 1938
Pygmalion, co-founder of the London School of Economics
👎 An Englishman thinks he is moral when is only uncomfortable.
👎 Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about
creating yourself
👎 A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
👎 Make it a rule never to give a child a book you
would not read yourself.
👎 You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things
that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
👎 Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.
👎 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.
👎 Those who cannot change their minds cannot change
anything.
👎 Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no love
sincere than the love of food.
👎 People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
👎 Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If
he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
👎 People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
👎 You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use
works of art to see your soul.
👎 Success does not consist in never making mistakes
but in never making the same one a second time.
👎 Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and
the pig likes it.
👎 My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the
funniest joke in the world.
👎 The single biggest problem with communication is
the illusion that it has taken place.
👎 The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not
to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.
👎 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.
👎 Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a
particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
👎 I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
👎 War does not decide who is right but who is left.
👎The
single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken
place.
👎 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the
window through which you must see the world.
👎 Whole problem with the world is that fools and
fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts.
👎 When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it
sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
👎 Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being
intimidated.
👎 Both optimists and pessimists contribute to
society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
👎 Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if
they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
👎 Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men
dread it.
👎 When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed
of, he always declares that it is his duty.
👎A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul.
👎 The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my
tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with
their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
👎This
is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the
oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew.
👎 You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you
grow old when you stop laughing.
👎 We learn from experience that men never learn
anything from experience.
👎 He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
👎The most tragic thing in the world is a man of
genius who is not a man of honor.
👎 I never resist temptation because I have found
that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
👎 I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine
per cent an idiot.
👎 First love is only a little foolishness and a lot
of curiosity.
👎 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also
stupid.”
👎 Doing what needs to be done may not make you
happy, but it will make you great.
👎 Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous
than ignorance.
👎 A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
👎 Clever and attractive women do not want to vote;
they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
👎 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be
governed no better than we deserve.
👎 The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
👎 A gentleman is one who puts more into the world
than he takes out.
👎 A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing!.
👎 Take care to get what you like or you will be
forced to like what you get.
👎 Science never solves a problem without creating
ten more.
👎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.
👎The perfect love affair is one which is conducted
entirely by post.
👎 I am afraid we must make the world honest before
we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
👎 Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if
there is time enough.
👎 Beware of the man who does not return your blow:
he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
👎 Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a
horizontal desire.
👎 The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they
behave in a quarrel.
👎 Few people think more than two or three times a
year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or
twice a week.
👎 Socialism is the same as Communism, only better
English.
👎 Statistics show that of those who contract the
habit of eating, very few survive.
👎 If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d
never reach a conclusion.
👎 The secret to success is to offend the greatest
number of people.
👎 If you must hold yourself up to your children as
an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
👎 A
broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a
comfortable income.
👎 Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a
Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
👎 I never thought much of the courage of a lion
tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
👎 Kings are not born: they are made by artificial
hallucination.
👎 The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy
whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about
the rich man.
👎 There is only one religion, though there are a
hundred versions of it.
👎 England and America are two countries separated by
the same language.
👎 The only secrets are the secrets that keep
themselves.
👎 It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be
moved by statistics.
👎 The things most people want to know about are
usually none of their business.
👎 Lack of money is the root of all evil.
👎 Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may
be serious.
👎 The possibilities are numerous once we decide to
act and not react.
👎 There is nothing more dangerous than the
conscience of a bigot.
👎 Most people do not pray; they only beg.
👎 Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same
one a second time .
👎 Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
👎 Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them
what is going to happen to the world.
👎 Better never than late.
👎 A man never tells you anything until you
contradict him.
👎 No question is so difficult to answer as that to
which the answer is obvious.
👎 My reputation grows with every failure.
👎 Except during the nine months before he draws his
first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
👎 When a man says money can do anything That settles
it: he hasn’t got any.
👎 Man can climb to the highest summits, but he
cannot dwell there long.
👎 There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does
not object to it.
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