George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.
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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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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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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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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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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
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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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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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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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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 is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
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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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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.