英语名句 by George Bernard Shaw

Thelonger I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, andthat all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions haveonly wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Thereasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable onepersists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, allprogress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw, "Answers to Nine Questions"

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

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1

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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I

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

George Bernard Shaw, "Misalliance"

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Peopleare always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don'tbelieve in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are thepeople who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, ifthey can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III

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Womenupset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that thewoman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

George Bernard Shaw, "Pygmalion" (1913)

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Bernard Shaw, "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

George Bernard Shaw, "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I

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"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919)

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Act III

Doyou think that the things people make fools of themselves about are anyless real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They aremore true: they are the only things that are true.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1

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

George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2