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1 " There is no love sincerer than the love of food. "
― George Bernard Shaw , Man and Superman
2 " What you are to do without me I cannot imagine. "
― George Bernard Shaw , Pygmalion
3 " Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. "
― George Bernard Shaw
4 " A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. "
5 " There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. "
6 " 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, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. "
― George Bernard Shaw , Getting Married
7 " In heaven an angel is no one in particular. "
8 " 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. "
9 " You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not? "
― George Bernard Shaw , Back to Methuselah
10 " The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. "
11 " A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. "
12 " Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. "
13 " If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. "
― George Bernard Shaw ,
14 " A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. "
15 " My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. "
― George Bernard Shaw , John Bull's Other Island
16 " The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure. "
17 " I’m an atheist and I thank God for it. "
18 " When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. "
19 " We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. "
20 " Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.... "
― George Bernard Shaw , Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism of Bernard Shaw (Volume 1: 1876-1890)
