George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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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.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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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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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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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.