George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Better never than late.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.
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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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All progress means war with Society.
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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers...
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.