George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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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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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
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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.
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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.
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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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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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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.