An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
- Life
- 1856-1950
- Occupations
- music critic, politician, playwright
- Notable works
- Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Mrs. Warren's Profession
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Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates himself for it. An Unsocial Socialist (1950)
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw