George Bernard Shaw Quotes

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

Remember that I too am mortal.

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

Altogether too many sheep

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.