George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy

George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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

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 onto future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw

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

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw
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