His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. He began his literary career as a novelist. Later he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. Shaw’s main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays.
He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion, respectively.
Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honors, but later accepted it.
( 1856-1950)
– George Bernard Shaw Quotes –
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
~ George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’
~ George Bernard Shaw
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you; their tastes may not be the same.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of organised life
~ George Bernard Shaw
