George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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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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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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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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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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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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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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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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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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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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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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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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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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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.