George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
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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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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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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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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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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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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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General consultant to mankind.
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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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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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.