George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856-07-26 – 1950-11-02) was an Irish playwright, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
Found 142 thoughts of George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
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
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
George Bernard Shaw
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of life.
George Bernard Shaw
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
