George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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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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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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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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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.
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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
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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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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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 can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.