George Bernard Shaw Quotes

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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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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