George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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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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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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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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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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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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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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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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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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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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All progress means war with Society.
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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.