George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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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.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
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That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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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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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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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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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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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.
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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.