George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.
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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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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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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.