George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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General consultant to mankind.
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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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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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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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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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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
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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 poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.