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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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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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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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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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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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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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.
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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.