Quotes By Author: George Bernard Shaw

“La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite.”

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.”

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

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”

“While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: “To —-, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw.”He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: “With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.”

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”

“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”

“Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.”

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

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