George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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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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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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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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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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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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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.
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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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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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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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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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This souls' prison we call England.
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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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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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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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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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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.