Life Quotes Quote by George Bernard Shaw — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

“While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”

“He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.”

“Staying in one place is the best path to be taken over and surpassed by many.”

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”