George Bernard Shaw

Famous Irish Peoplle: George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Quotations

1. “If you’re going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.”
2. “I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
3. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
4. “Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
5. “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
6. “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
7. “Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”
8. “Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”
9. ” A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.”
10. “Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”
11. “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
12. “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

Creative Quotations from George Bernard