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George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and political activist who became the leading dramatist of his generation. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Known for his sharp wit and social commentary, Shaw wrote over 60 plays including *Pygmalion*, which inspired the musical *My Fair Lady*.

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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Beauty

All Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge

“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Success

“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Good

“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

Fitness

“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Famous

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Life

“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Men

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Family

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Business

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Money

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Men

“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Life

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge

“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

Learning

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Funny

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Change

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Success

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Government

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Experience