George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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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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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
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A great social reformer.