George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.
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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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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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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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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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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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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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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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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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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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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt...
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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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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.