George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The stock actor is a stage calamity...
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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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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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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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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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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.
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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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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.