George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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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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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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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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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...
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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.