George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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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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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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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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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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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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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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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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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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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.