George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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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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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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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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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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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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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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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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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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The stock actor is a stage calamity...
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.