“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

— George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911), Act V

About George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic, Nobel laureate in Literature (1925).

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”

“The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”