George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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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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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!