George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary...
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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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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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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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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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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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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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.