Quotes by 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.”

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”

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

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”

“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

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

“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.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

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

“There is always danger for those who are afraid.”

“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, ...”

“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”

“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 on to future generations.”

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

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”