George Bernard Shaw Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

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

3. Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

4. He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. Man and Superman

5. I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

6. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. Immaturity

7. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

8. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. John Bull's Other Island

9. 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.... Music in London

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

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

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

13. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. Misalliance

14. The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all. Saint Joan

15. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. Man and Superman

16. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Candida

17. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

18. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. Back to Methuselah

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

20. I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not? Back to Methuselah

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

22. My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.[From the will of GBS]

23. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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. Mrs. Warren's Profession

24. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

25. 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. Man and Superman

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

27. You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something. Major Barbara