George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
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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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Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.
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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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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 not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
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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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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?