George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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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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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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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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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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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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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 English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
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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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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.