George Bernard Shaw Quotes (114+)

Enjoy the best George Bernard Shaw Quotes. Quotations by George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

About the Author

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was a prolific Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics. He is the only person to have received both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Academy Award.