George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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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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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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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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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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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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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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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.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.