George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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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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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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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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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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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 power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.