George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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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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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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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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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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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.