George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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General consultant to mankind.
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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
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There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.