George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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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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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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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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Better never than late.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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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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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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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 possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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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 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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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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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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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.