George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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An index is a great leveller.
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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 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 God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
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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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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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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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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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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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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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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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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
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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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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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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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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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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
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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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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit...
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.