George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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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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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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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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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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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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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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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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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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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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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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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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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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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.