George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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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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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.