George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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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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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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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
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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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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.