George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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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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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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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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In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.
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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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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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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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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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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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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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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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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
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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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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.