George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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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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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.