Top 500 George Bernard Shaw Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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2. “Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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3. “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

4. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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5. “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

— George Bernard Shaw

6. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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7. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

8. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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9. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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11. “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”

— George Bernard Shaw

12. “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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13. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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14. “War does not decide who is right but who is left.”

— George Bernard Shaw

15. “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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16. “Youth is wasted on the young.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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17. “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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18. “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

— George Bernard Shaw

19. “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

20. “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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21. “Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers.”

— George Bernard Shaw

22. “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

— George Bernard Shaw

23. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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24. “English is the easiest language to speak badly.”

— George Bernard Shaw

25. “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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26. “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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27. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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28. “A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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29. “Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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30. “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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31. “Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”

— George Bernard Shaw

32. “To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”

— George Bernard Shaw

33. “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

— George Bernard Shaw

34. “I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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35. “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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36. “Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.”

— George Bernard Shaw

37. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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38. “Whisky is liquid sunshine.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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39. “The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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40. “My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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41. “All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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42. “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”

— George Bernard Shaw

43. “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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44. “Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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45. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

— George Bernard Shaw

46. “If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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47. “If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”

— George Bernard Shaw

48. “The harder I work the more I live.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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49. “Most people do not pray; they only beg.”

— George Bernard Shaw

50. “The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”

— George Bernard Shaw