George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.
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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states...
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.