George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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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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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
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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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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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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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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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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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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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War does not decide who is right but who is left.