George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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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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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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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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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.
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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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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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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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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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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.