George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians are. That is my last word. Think over it.
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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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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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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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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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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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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.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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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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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
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Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
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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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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.