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George Bernard Shaw Quotes (823 quotes)
 | “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” ―George Bernard Shaw Source/Notes: Bernard Shaw: Selections of his wit and wisdom (Follett Pub. Co., 1965), p. 179 |
| “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ―George Bernard Shaw Source/Notes: Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) |
| “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ―George Bernard Shaw Source/Notes: As quoted in Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. |
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| “Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.” ―George Bernard Shaw Source/Notes: Pt. V; see also the later phrasing of Malcolm Fraser, life wasn't meant to be easy. - Back to Methuselah (1921) |
| “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ―George Bernard Shaw Source/Notes: The Quintessence of G.B.S.: The Wit and Wisdom of Bernard Shaw (1949 edition) |
| “No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” ―George Bernard Shaw Source/Notes: The Quintessence of G.B.S.: The Wit and Wisdom of Bernard Shaw (Creative Age Press, 1949), p. 257 |
| Source/Notes: Man and Superman (1903), p. 230, "Maxims for Revolutionists" |
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| Source/Notes: Collected Letters: 1898-1910 (Viking, 1985), p. 103 |
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George Bernard Shaw
Born: July 26, 1856
Died: November 2, 1950 (aged 94)
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Dramatist, playwright, critic
Bio: George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays.
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