George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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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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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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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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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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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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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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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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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.