George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
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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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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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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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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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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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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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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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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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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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Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.'
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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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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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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.