George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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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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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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The stock actor is a stage calamity...
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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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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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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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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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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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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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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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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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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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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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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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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.