George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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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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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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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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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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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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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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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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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your copyrights.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.