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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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
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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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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE unabashed Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald’s movement is that it is not quite British enough.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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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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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.