George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
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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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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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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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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
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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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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.
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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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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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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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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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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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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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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.