George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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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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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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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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All Artists are Anarchists.
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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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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line...
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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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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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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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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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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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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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.