George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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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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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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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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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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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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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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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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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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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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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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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.