George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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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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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
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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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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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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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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her...
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Brains are not everything.
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.