George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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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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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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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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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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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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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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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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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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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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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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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?
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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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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.