George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.
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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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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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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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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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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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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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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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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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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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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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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
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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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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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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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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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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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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.