George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
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Brains are not everything.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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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.