George Bernard Shaw Quotes

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

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

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

“This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

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

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

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

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

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

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

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

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

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

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

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