George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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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.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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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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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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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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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.