George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.
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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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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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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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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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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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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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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.