George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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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 capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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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 we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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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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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
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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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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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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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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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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.