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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*.

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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All Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Love

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Time

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Music

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Beauty

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Food

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Power

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Courage

“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Power

“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”

— George Bernard Shaw

War

“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Art

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Beauty

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

— George Bernard Shaw

God

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Happiness

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Experience

“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”

— George Bernard Shaw

History

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Food

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Courage

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Dreams

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Money

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Famous