Inspiring Quotes and Iconic Works by George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of... - Insights from George Bernard Shaw

The quotes and works of George Bernard Shaw delve into themes of life, love, friendship, and success. Their words provide profound insights and inspiration, encouraging readers to reflect and find meaning in their own lives. Whether you're seeking motivation or exploring timeless wisdom, George Bernard Shaw's words offer a source of guidance and enlightenment.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
#Dance #Dancing #Definition #Innuendo

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
#Family #Humor

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
#Capital punishment #Crime #Death #Justice

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw
#Children #Parents #Parents and children

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfishness #Shortsightedness

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw
#Art #Cod #Fish #Humor

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
#Animals #Attributed no source #Friends #Humor

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw
#Character #Husband and wife relationship #Marriage

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
#Don juan in hell #Eternity #Heaven

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
#Humor

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.
George Bernard Shaw
#Corruption #Critics #Loyalty #Shaw

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
George Bernard Shaw
#Anti patriotism #Identity #Nation #Nationalism

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
#Patriotism #Peace

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
#Attributed no source #Elderly #Growing #Potential

Some donkeys have amazing luck.
George Bernard Shaw
#Luck

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

War does not decide who is right but who is left.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
George Bernard Shaw
#Alone #Leaving #Loss #Love

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
George Bernard Shaw
#Selfish #True joy #Long

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
#Humor #Truth

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
George Bernard Shaw
#Aging #Aging gracefully

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
#Knowledge #Learning

Quotes and Iconic Works by George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of... - Insights from George Bernard Shaw