George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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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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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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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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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum...
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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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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.