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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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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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
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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 am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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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 seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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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.