George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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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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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
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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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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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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 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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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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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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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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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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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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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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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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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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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.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice...