George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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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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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
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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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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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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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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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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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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.