George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
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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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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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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 philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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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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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
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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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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now...
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Brains are not everything.
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
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An index is a great leveller.
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.