George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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Better never than late.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.