George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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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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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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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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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.