Słynne cytaty – George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) – irlandzki pisarz i dramaturg, autor komedii Pigmalion (1913), laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury (1925).
 Oto wybrane powiedzenia tego genialnego samouka i erudyty:

• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

• An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. 

• Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? 

• Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. 

• Better never than late. 

• Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

• Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

• Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

• Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. 

• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. 

• If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. 

• In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. 

• Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. 

• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. 

• Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. 

• The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.