George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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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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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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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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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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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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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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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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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.
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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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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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change...
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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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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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.