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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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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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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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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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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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
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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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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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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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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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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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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 great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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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.