Life Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

What is life but a series of inspired follies...

— George Bernard Shaw

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

— George Bernard Shaw

Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...

— George Bernard Shaw

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

— George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

— George Bernard Shaw

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

— George Bernard Shaw

Heartbreak is life educating us.

— George Bernard Shaw

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

— George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but…

— George Bernard Shaw

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

— George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

— George Bernard Shaw

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

— George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

— George Bernard Shaw

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

— George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all…

— George Bernard Shaw

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain…

— George Bernard Shaw

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it…

— George Bernard Shaw

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for…

— George Bernard Shaw

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with…

— George Bernard Shaw

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no…

— George Bernard Shaw

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in…

— George Bernard Shaw

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than…

— George Bernard Shaw

“This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly…

— George Bernard Shaw

“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege…

— George Bernard Shaw

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life…

— George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly…

— George Bernard Shaw

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I object to all punishment whatsoever. I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I…

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension…

— George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force…

— George Bernard Shaw

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being…

— George Bernard Shaw

“HIGGINS. It's all you'll get until you stop being a common idiot. If you're going to be a lady, you'll have to…

— George Bernard Shaw