George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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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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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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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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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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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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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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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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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.
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There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.
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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.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.