George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary...
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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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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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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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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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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
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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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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young