George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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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 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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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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A great social reformer.
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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
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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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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.