George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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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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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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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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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.