George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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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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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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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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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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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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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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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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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.