George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.