George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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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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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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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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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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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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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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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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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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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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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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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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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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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?