George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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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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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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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
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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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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.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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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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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.