Top 232 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

About George Bernard Shaw

These are some quotes by Irish author George Bernard Shaw Dramatist, who lived between July 26, 1856 and November 2, 1950.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

George Bernard Shaw

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

George Bernard Shaw

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 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.

George Bernard Shaw

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 leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

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