George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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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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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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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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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.