George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Dramatist
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26 July, 1856
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02 November, 1950
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Ireland
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