George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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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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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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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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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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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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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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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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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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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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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.