George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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 mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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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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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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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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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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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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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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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
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General consultant to mankind.
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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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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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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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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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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.