George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!