George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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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 seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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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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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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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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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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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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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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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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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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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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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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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.