George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
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Brains are not everything.
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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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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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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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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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
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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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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, 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. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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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.