George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God - nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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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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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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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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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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All Artists are Anarchists.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.