George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
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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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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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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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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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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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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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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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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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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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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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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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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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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.