George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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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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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.
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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
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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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Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.
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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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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that...
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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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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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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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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 have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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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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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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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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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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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.